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[Darrel <levitch%iglou.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 28 Jul 2012, Greg Troxel wrote:

> > >  2) there might be bugs in the update logic
> >
> > Does some of the update logic overlap etcupdate?  When I ran
> > etcupdate(8) it prompted for me to install sets that build.sh had
> > installed a minute or two before.  After some more experience, I plan
> > to consider sysbuild.
>
> No, totally separate code.  I meant that there are Makefile rules which
> express dependencies, and it's possible that there is someplace where
> there is an unexpressed dependency.
Yes, I have experienced this in other places, too.
> etcupdate could also have bugs.
>
> Also, check out pkgsrc/sysutils/etcmanage, with include scripts
> {BUILD,INSTALL}-NetBSD.  I don't yet understand how it relates to
> sysbuild - I suspect it does things sysbuild doesn't and vice versa.
Probably I can experiment very carefully with sysutils/etcmanage *and* 
sysutils/sysbuild without breaking anything.  :)

Thanks, again- for clarifying.  I am probably okay for everything that 
I need to accomplish over the next several months.  Last year, I totally 
botched a NetBSD5 system because of misunderstanding *one* sentence from
the output of % ./build.sh -h

Darrel