HEADS-UP: installworld on r299292 through r299317 will replace master.passwd, passwd, and group files

[Glen Barber]

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 02:38:36PM +0800, Marcelo Araujo wrote:
> 2016-05-10 14:32 GMT+08:00 Glen Barber <gjb at freebsd.org>:
> 
> > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 08:25:22AM +0200, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > > On 10 May 2016 at 08:18, O. Hartmann <ohartman at zedat.fu-berlin.de>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I haven't figured out so far how far this goes. Lucky for those having
> > > > recent /etc/ backups. A pity FreeBSD doens't backup this by default.
> > >
> > > After having shot myself in the foot some time ago, "zfs snapshot" has
> > > become a part of my standard upgrade procedures :-)
> > >
> >
> > No argument that this is valuable, but we cannot rely on filesystem
> > specific solutions.  Similar topic came up a few days ago following
> > lunch.  It got me thinking of a better way to ensure this kind of thing
> > does not require home-grown foot protection from cannons.
> >
> > It should be fairly trivial to automatically backup /etc (and related)
> > when 'distribution' is run, either intentionally or accidentally (or by
> > commit mistakes, such as this).
> >
> >
> As an idea, when we run make installworld before it replaces the files, it
> could make a backup of those files that will be replaced to
> /var/backups/etc${DATE}/ .
> 

Yes, this is similar to what I was considering implementing.

Glen

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