Re: etcupdate and mtree files without metadata

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> Today I upgraded from 4.99.73 to today's 5.0_BETA.
>
> I installed using "sudo ./build.sh -U install=/"
>
> and then ran the suggested:
>
> /home/reed/src/usr.sbin/postinstall/postinstall -s '/home/reed/src' -d //
> fix defaults makedev motd mtree periodic rc obsolete
>
> and then ran:
>
> sudo etcupdate -s /home/reed/src -v -l
>
> It showed many differences with mtree files. I chose "d" to not install
> any of these.
>
> The temproot mtree files only listed the filenames without any metadata,
> while the mtree files (generated today) include the type, uname, gname,
> mode, sha1 metadata.
>
> I am not sure yet where the mtree specification files in the etcupdate's
> temproot came from.
>
> But seems like an error to me.

The amd64 kernel looks busted as well.

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