Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 12:48:22 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> To: Renato Botelho <garga@freebsd.org> Cc: Brad Davis <brd@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r347961 - head Message-ID: <20190522124822.GA99369@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <47ad59b3-5adf-20bf-5dcc-23da82610cea@FreeBSD.org> References: <201905181936.x4IJaNir001183@repo.freebsd.org> <47ad59b3-5adf-20bf-5dcc-23da82610cea@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 09:42:29AM -0300, Renato Botelho wrote: > On 18/05/19 16:36, Brad Davis wrote: > > New Revision: 347961 > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/347961 > > > > Log: > > Add note to UPDATING for users of mergemaster after the move of > > master.passwd and group in r347638. > > > > Approved by: allanjude (mentor) > > > > Modified: > > head/UPDATING > > > > +20190517: > > + For users of mergemaster, after recent changes to locations of > > + master.passwd and group in the source tree mergemaster needs to be > > + updated. Before running `mergemaster -p', cd to usr.sbin/mergemaster > > + and run `make install'. > > + > > etcupdate is installing group and master.passwd to /lib/libc/gen. It > seems wrong. > > root@x230:/usr/src # etcupdate -p > A /lib/libc/gen/group > A /lib/libc/gen/master.passwd *facepalm* Let me ask again: why these files were moved out of their perfectly (and likely the only) reasonable location (etc/) under some cryptic libc/gen/ which not only makes little sense per se, but also breaks mergemaster(8) and similar tools? ./danfe
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