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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