Re: CVS commit: src/etc

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 08:23:19AM +0200, Maxime Villard wrote:
> Le 24/07/2018 à 21:45, Thomas Klausner a écrit :
> > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 07:10:38PM +0200, Maxime Villard wrote:
> > > > Is this something that we should let postinstall fix?
> > > > Or what is the upgrade strategy for the users not reading source-changes?
> > > 
> > > Now that I stumbled across it while browsing mail-index.netbsd.org:
> > > doesn't postinstall use MAKEDEV.tmpl already?
> > 
> > AFAICT, the script itself (/dev/MAKEDEV) is updated, but created nodes
> > are not.
> 
> Then that is a missing feature of postinstall, am I right?

No, that is on purpose. Admin may do arbitrary changes to /dev/* ownership
and rights.

In this case I would suggest to add a special test for too broad rights,
warn, and propose a command for manual fixing.

Martin