Subject: Re: Moving etc/postinstall from etc.tgz to usr/sbin and base.tgz
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-install
Date: 04/19/2005 09:23:46
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 10:05:05PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
| On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 06:51:16PM +1000, Luke Mewburn wrote:
| > I intend to move postinstall from /etc to /usr/sbin, and make
| > it part of the 'base' set.
| >=20
| > Benefits:
| >=20
| > * Removes the need for funky invocation instructions for
| > postinstall, such as "extract etc.tgz".
| >=20
| > * Many of the issues that postinstall checks/fixes are
| > related to new versions of applications in the 'base'
| > set, not just the configuration files in 'etc'.
| >=20
| >=20
| > I'm still considering whether this gets installed as a script
| > from in usr.sbin/etcupdate, or I create a separate
| > usr.sbin/postinstall.
| >=20
| > Any comments ?
|=20
| Have you remembered that sysinst runs postinstall after exploding etc.t=
gz ?
Yes. That is the outstanding issue to fix.
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