Re: PR/54730 CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/postinstall

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/54730; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
To: christos%zoulas.com@localhost
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost
Subject: Re: PR/54730 CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/postinstall
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 02:29:57 +0900

 > How hard would it be to fix the upgrade process instead to
 > extract those two files?
 
 What about manual upgrade installation?
 (i.e. extracting all sets except etc,
  then updating etc and others by postinstall(8))
 
 I'm afraid certain old users also want "postinstall -s etc.tgz fix"
 just works as the past releases, without manually extracting
 "those two files" from etc.tgz.
 
 IMO postintall(8) itself should install (update) /var/db/obsolete
 (and other necessary files) from ${ETCTGZDIR} in TGZMODE case,
 rather than sysinst(8).
 
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 Izumi Tsutsui