Subject: re: mtree and builds
To: None <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 02/21/2002 03:06:20
> It might bite people who change the uids of default users when
> building into "/". That's why I didn't make this the default
> when I added the support.
I'm not sure I particularly care about supporting that case. If you
do that, be prepared to fixup your sources if you source-upgrade, I say.
i think the problem comes from when people had pre-existing accounts
that we've added. i know it's affected me at least twice.
.mrg.