Re: CVS commit: src/etc

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 01:48:41PM +0200, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> Hmmm, /etc/defaults/rc.conf should be transparent to postinstall(8), as
> it gets installed via <bsd.files.mk> during build.sh.
> 
> If the source ('-s' of postinstall(8)) is not specified at command line,
> according to code it takes "/usr/src" as default. Do you have a
> stale/old rc.conf(5) file in there, /usr/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf?

I have the CVS checkout there that was used to build the snapshot I
installed, so yes there is a file there but no it is not stale.

> Now, if this case should be handled properly is another question. There
> are multiple solutions, all of them end up tweaking postinstall(8):
> - raise a warning when overriding certain configuration files with older
> versions (perhaps by using the CVS tags?)

It's not an older version.

> - make source an explicit arg to etcupdate/postinstall
> - something else?

Or perhaps prefer ./etc to /usr/src/etc, that would solve the issue
for me at least :)
 Thomas