On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 14:54:08 +1000, Luke Mewburn wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:17:02PM +0000, Mark Valentine wrote:
>   | Looks like I just have one little problem left before I have a successful
>   | NetBSD release build on my FreeBSD system (after fixing some bugs in the
>   | FreeBSD shell and printf utility to get this far!).
>   | 
>   | I'm doing an unprivileged build, and the symptom is pax bailing out when
>   | creating base.tgz due to an unknown user name "ftp".
>   | 
>   | I can isolate the problem as follows:
>   | 
>   |   $ nbmtree -C -k all -N /netbsd/i386/etc <<EOF
>   |   /set type=dir
>   |   .
>   |   ./foo uname=named
>   |   EOF
>   |   . type=dir 
>   |   ./foo type=dir uname=ftp 
>   | 
>   | The user "named" is uid 14 in NetBSD; uid 14 in FreeBSD is user "ftp"...
>   | 
>   | It seems that mtree is linking in its own pwcache_userdb(), but using the
>   | host's user_from_uid()!  Is this likely to work?!
> 
> No FreeBSD's (the host) user_from_uid(3) won't work.
> 
> I have no idea why the user_from_uid() in the tools/compat library isn't 
> being correctly linked into nbmtree... :(

Hmm, "it used to work".  I'll try to look into this soon unless
someone else beats me to it.

SY, Uwe
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