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List:       netbsd-current-users
Subject:    Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/postinstall
From:       Greg Troxel <gdt () lexort ! com>
Date:       2019-06-17 0:16:07
Message-ID: rmir27tkqwo.fsf () s1 ! lexort ! com
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Roy Marples <roy@marples.name> writes:

> On 13/06/2019 09:00, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 06:17:29AM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> I've been using etcupdate for ages so I only ever really used
>>> postinstall to fix "obsolete" and "catpages".  etcupdate -a has some
>>> kinks and may be we should concentrate on fixing those instead?
>>
>> I *never* used etcupdate, so for me it's better to have a working postinstall
>> (I have a PR about it: install/52349, which may have been fixed by the
>> recent change)
>
> I used etc-update once and accidently overwrote master.passwd
> Never used it since, far too risky.

etcmanage, in pkgsrc, was designed to specifically avoid touching any
file unless it is reliably recorded as matching upstream.
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