From nobody Sun Nov 06 03:12:04 2022 X-Original-To: freebsd-current@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4N4fY458Qkz4hDCc for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2022 03:12:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd@www.zefox.net) Received: from www.zefox.net (www.zefox.net [50.1.20.27]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "www.zefox.com", Issuer "www.zefox.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4N4fY34MPjz3Lt8 for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2022 03:12:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd@www.zefox.net) Received: from www.zefox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.zefox.net (8.16.1/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id 2A63C4Fr046038 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2022 20:12:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsd@www.zefox.net) Received: (from fbsd@localhost) by www.zefox.net (8.16.1/8.15.2/Submit) id 2A63C4qb046037 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 5 Nov 2022 20:12:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsd) Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2022 20:12:04 -0700 From: bob prohaska To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Seeking an idiot's guide to etcupdate/mergemaster Message-ID: <20221106031204.GA45827@www.zefox.net> References: <20221021175142.GA62386@www.zefox.net> <0697DE1F-C626-4289-894A-4141CDF1B91B@yahoo.com> <71AB9FAC-EB00-48F0-B0DD-0629C2D3C8C0@googlemail.com> <5719632F-8A92-4784-88D8-EAE3F20F2FA3@yahoo.com> <20221024174930.GA79381@www.zefox.net> <20221025005012.GA80394@www.zefox.net> <605A6723-5D31-495C-8200-FD107115FC81@yahoo.com> List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <605A6723-5D31-495C-8200-FD107115FC81@yahoo.com> X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4N4fY34MPjz3Lt8 X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of fbsd@www.zefox.net has no SPF policy when checking 50.1.20.27) smtp.mailfrom=fbsd@www.zefox.net X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.10 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; MID_RHS_WWW(0.50)[]; WWW_DOT_DOMAIN(0.50)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-current@freebsd.org]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7065, ipnet:50.1.16.0/20, country:US]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[no SPF record]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[zefox.net]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-current@freebsd.org]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 08:32:17PM -0700, Mark Millard wrote: > > Your /etc/rc.d/ldconfig script seems to have not been updated > by use of etcupdate or mergemaster or other such. (How much > else is also out of date? How much of what you have for /etc/ > and the like goes back to 2022-Jan-07 or before?) > Alas, that is too true. The system was set up on July 2, 2020 and I've never managed to make sense of either mergemaster nor etcupdate. Far as I could tell it didn't matter, the host ran correctly, until now. It's been transplanted to a new hard drive, which allows the installation of a ports tree. Ports don't install because of the stale /etc/rc.d/ldconfig file. Since no changes have been made to /etc/ apart from /etc/rc.conf is it possible to simply let mergemaster or etcupdate install the latest defaults? I have looked at the manpage for etcupdate and didn't recognize any straightforward way to simply accept all updates. This particular system is expendable, so I'd be glad to try things that might not work well, or at all. Apologies if I'm being dumb (probably guilty) or lazy (definitely guilty). The barrage of questions generated by etcupdate and mergemaster is simply overwhelming. And, I suspect, largely unnecessary. Thanks for reading! bob prohaska