Re: Missing file after postisnstall?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2018, Valery Ushakov wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 05:40:22 +0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
>
> > I recently updated from 8.99.7 to 8.99.12 and noticed that my daily security
> > job reported a missing file:
> >
> > 	Checking special files and directories.
> > 	./etc/rc.d/dhcpd6 missing
> >
> > Shouldn't this have been found and fixed by postinstall?
>
> Why it should be "fixed" if it ain't broken?  :) Your system still
> happily boots without DHCP6 server, isn't it?  If you want to update
> your configuration files to the new etc.tgz you run etcupdate.
>
> postinstall only does minimal configuration tweaks that are necessary
> to keep the system working with the new userland, or at least that was
> its original design goal as I remember it.

I also ran `etcupdate -al -s etc.gz -s xetc.gz` and it does not find 
the missing rc.d file, either.



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