On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 01:07:24AM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 1:40 PM -0400 2002/04/21, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> 
> >>  	In my examples, I was starting from the /usr directory, as
> >>  specified in the instructions.
> 
> 	Okay, with my latest attempt, I am completely avoiding all 
> attempts to use CVS -- I'm just extracting the latest tarballs and 
> trying build.sh.  This is working much better.  However, I have run 
> into a new problem.  I have done searches on the web and in USENET 
> newsgroups (thanks to Google), and I have not found any discussion of 
> this problem or the solution:
> 
> /u/src/tools/obj/tools.NetBSD-1.5.2-sparc/bin/nbmtree -def 
> mtree/NetBSD.dist -p /usr/tmp/destdir/ -U
> nbmtree: unknown user `named'
> nbmtree: failed at line 766 of the specification

This is documented in the UPDATING file you should have gotten with the
sources.
You need to add user & group named from the distrib master.passwd (and
maybe another user - I don't remmeber).

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