Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/postinstall

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 10:24:58 +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 10:24:58 +0100
> From: Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>
> Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/postinstall
> To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>, current-users%NetBSD.org@localhost
> 
> On 13/06/2019 09:00, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 06:17:29AM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > I've been using etcupdate for ages so I only ever really used
> > > postinstall to fix "obsolete" and "catpages".  etcupdate -a has some
> > > kinks and may be we should concentrate on fixing those instead?
> > 
> > I *never* used etcupdate, so for me it's better to have a working postinstall
> > (I have a PR about it: install/52349, which may have been fixed by the
> > recent change)
> 
> I used etc-update once and accidently overwrote master.passwd
> Never used it since, far too risky.

Well, updating your etc is risky.  Handling of passwd/group (or rather
lack of special handling for them) is probably the weakest part of
etcupdate UX.

-uwe