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[Glen Barber]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 04:08:15PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:53:38 +0000, Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org> said:
> 
> > One (other kludge) I was considering was automatically invoking
> > etcupdate(8) on 'FreeBSD-runtime' installation, which should
> > automatically populate /etc on a clean install, as well as keeping /etc
> > updated as part of upgrades.
> 
> > But, I *really* do not like that idea...
> 
> I thought that this was supposed to happen using the existing pkg(8)
> "config files" functionaility, which is already supposed to do the
> three-way merge...?  I did not realize that those files were not
> getting packaged.
> 

That is what was originally the plan, but the current implementation
breaks etcupdate(8) and mergemaster(8) with source-based upgrades.  I'm
still looking into how to properly fix this.

Glen

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