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

From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/35570: etcupdate(8) runs mtree on outdated passwd/group information
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 16:44:41 +0200

 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)?
 
 --apb (Alan Barrett)