The following reply was made to PR pkg/34779; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ben Collver <ben@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/34779 CVS commit: pkgsrc/mk/pkginstall
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:10:55 +0000 (UTC)

 Module Name:	pkgsrc
 Committed By:	ben
 Date:		Thu Oct 12 23:10:55 UTC 2006
 
 Added Files:
 	pkgsrc/mk/pkginstall: usergroupfuncs.Linux
 
 Log Message:
 Linux shadow-utils provides a useradd that fails when creating a home
 directory under a base directory hat does not exist.  Add workaround
 to ensure that the base directory does exist.  This addresses PR#34779
 
 
 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -r0 -r1.1 pkgsrc/mk/pkginstall/usergroupfuncs.Linux
 
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