freebsd stable - Feb 2021 - pkgbase: Missing /etc/master.passwd in FreeBSD-runtime 12-stable pkg

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>> On 1/31/21 12:04 PM, mj-mailinglist at gmx.de wrote:
>>> I noticed that my jails, build from a recent pkg base don't
start:
>>> ...
>>> Starting jails: cannot start jail  "j6":
>>> 7
>>> jail: j6: getpwnam root: No such file or directory
>>> jail: j6: /bin/sh /etc/rc: failed
>>> .
>>>
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Just a thought, did you run
>>
>> make distribution DESTDIR=<path-to-jail>
>
> This shouldn't be necessary with pkgbase, but I haven't looked at
> pkgbase in 12 on a long time -- it sounds like we managed to regress
> it somewhere.
The last step in my weekly system rebuild is "make packages" to create
a pkgbase
repository from the newly build system. The last build, i could use to create
jails is r368786M, with "stable/12-c58-g53bc32215" the jails are
broken.
I didn't check since which commit the error occurs. Reading the commit logs
doesn't show anything obvious to me.

Should pkgbase be operational in stable/12? If the consensus is no, i just skip
it and concentrate on 13. Will pkgbase be a supported (and working) feature on
13?

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Martin