Re: etcupdate: Failed to build new tree

In reply to: Nuno Teixeira : "etcupdate: Failed to build new tree"
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From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 14:36:45 UTC

On 7/2/21 2:30 AM, Nuno Teixeira wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Last update I have some issues with etcupdate:
> 
> etcupdate warning: "No previous tree to compare against, a sane comparison
> is not possible."
> 
> That I corrected with:
> 
> etcupdate extract
> etcupdate diff > /tmp/etc.diff
> patch -R < /tmp/etc.diff
> (etcupdate diff doesn't show any diffs.)
> 
> Today I've just updated current and etcupdate -p gives:
> 
> "Failed to build new tree"
> 
> What might be wrong?

You can look in /var/db/etcupdate/log to check for errors.

-- 
John Baldwin