Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/postinstall

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 01:13:52PM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 10:00:03 +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 06:17:29AM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > I've been using etcupdate for ages so I only ever really used
> > > postinstall to fix "obsolete" and "catpages".  etcupdate -a has some
> > > kinks and may be we should concentrate on fixing those instead?
> > 
> > I *never* used etcupdate, so for me it's better to have a working postinstall
> > (I have a PR about it: install/52349, which may have been fixed by the
> > recent change)
> 
> The rc.d part is probably addressed by this very change that Christos
> made (that i was replying to).
> 
> The other part is exactly what I'm talking about.  postinstall does
> NOT update your system to the new etc.tgz set, it cherry picks stuff
> from the new etc.tgz.

It should create files and directory that are expected to be there but are not.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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