Re: CVS commit: basesrc/etc

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry%wasabisystems.com@localhost>]

Luke Mewburn <lukem%wasabisystems.com@localhost> writes:
> > Synthetically generate metadata entries for passwd, spwd.db, pwd.db.
> > XXX Note that it can easily be argued that these should be generated by
> > the installer, not shipped in the tar files, but that's for another day.
> 
> Or you could just have another mtree specfile containing all of these
> type of entries, and append that to the metalog before using it (since
> we probably have to prepend the NetBSD.dist mtree file to the metalog
> before use).

Perhaps that will be the way to go eventually. For the moment I prefer
to have the metadata appear only if the files have been installed.

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