Re: install/50846 (etcupdate -a doesn't handle destdir properly)

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

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From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: install/50846 (etcupdate -a doesn't handle destdir properly)
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 23:08:08 +0700

     Date:        Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:35:01 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
     Message-ID:  <20190619123501.654B97A1C4%mollari.NetBSD.org@localhost>
 
   |  the problem seems to be that we do compute the wrong file checksum
   |  before calling install_checksum() but then we would compute the right
   |  file checksum in install_checksum() itself.
 
 There are 3 different PRs (yours (50846), 51335, and 52109), all more
 recent that the last etcupdate commit, that at least refer to the same
 problem - with different proposals for fixes.   I will seek to find
 something that works.
 
   |  Come to think of it, one thing that always kinda annoyed me about it
   |  is that etcupdate always overwrite the checksum file even if the old
   |  one is the same.  Since this is exactly the place where it happens, we
   |  might want to fix this in one swoop.
 
 Seems reasonable, I will add that to the list.
 
 I'm not sure what I will do with Bill Simpson's PR (23212) from 2003
 (1.6ZD !) though, if anyone has any opinions on that one (it relates to
 what should update the /etc/moduli file) I'd love to hear them.
 
 kre