Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2021 13:58:01 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Files in /etc containing empty VCSId header Message-ID: <2a280bc83d9a6289b3443329eb15bb0cb6c75063.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfo59R2Gd%2B-KB1=WvPY-RxR4h4U9ikAECHOnCddqh3VVRw@mail.gmail.com> References: <20210520183705.3673dfb2@bsd64.grem.de> <2bd37d63-1806-b621-a32b-954c912bd16b@FreeBSD.org> <CANCZdfo59R2Gd%2B-KB1=WvPY-RxR4h4U9ikAECHOnCddqh3VVRw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 2021-06-07 at 13:53 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 12:26 PM John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > On 5/20/21 9:37 AM, Michael Gmelin wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > After a binary update using freebsd-update, all files in /etc > > > contain > > > "empty" VCS Id headers, e.g., > > > > > > $ head /etc/nsswitch.conf > > > # > > > # nsswitch.conf(5) - name service switch configuration file > > > # $FreeBSD$ > > > # > > > group: compat > > > group_compat: nis > > > hosts: files dns > > > netgroup: compat > > > networks: files > > > passwd: compat > > > > > > After migrating to git, I would've expected those to contain > > > something > > > else or disappear completely. Is this expected and are there any > > > plans > > > to remove them completely? > > > > I believe we might eventually remove them in the future, but doing > > so > > right now would introduce a lot of churn and the conversion to git > > had enough other churn going on. > > > > We'd planned on not removing things that might be merged to stable/12 > since > those releases (12.3 only I think) will be built out of svn. We'll > likely > start to > remove things more widely as the stable/12 branch reaches EOL and > after. > > Warner It would be really nice if, instead of just deleting the $FreeBSD$ markers, they could be replaced with the path/filename of the file in the source tree. Sometimes it's a real interesting exercise to figure out where a file on your runtime system comes from in the source world. All the source tree layout changes that happened for packaged-base makes it even more interesting. -- Ian
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