The following reply was made to PR install/21052; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/21052 (sysinst adds duplicate entry to /etc/hosts)
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:49:00 +0100

 On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 04:55:50AM +0000, jmcneill@netbsd.org wrote:
 > Synopsis: sysinst adds duplicate entry to /etc/hosts
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
 > State-Changed-By: jmcneill@netbsd.org
 > State-Changed-When: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 04:55:49 +0000
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > Does this extra entry for localhost hurt anything?
 
 Well, you get another one every time sysinst updates /etc/hosts....
 And, yes, sysinst does take care not to do that to other files.
 
 	David
 
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 David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk