The following reply was made to PR bin/35570; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org,
	Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de>
Subject: Re: bin/35570: etcupdate(8) runs mtree on outdated passwd/group
 information
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 16:24:16 +0100

 Am 09.02.2007 um 14:50 Uhr +0000 schrieb Alan Barrett:
 >  On Thu, 08 Feb 2007, Hauke Fath wrote:
 >  > 	Upgrade a NetBSD installation, then run etcupdate(8).
 >  > 	Watch mtree fail because of "unknown users or groups".
 >  >
 >  > 	This problem has been around for a long time.
 >
 >  I haven't seen this problem.  Did you run etcupdate with -s etc.tgz
 >  (recommended) or with -s /usr/src (not recommended)?
 
 The (recommended) former.
 
 	hauke
 
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