Subject: Re: Moving etc/postinstall from etc.tgz to usr/sbin and base.tgz
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-install
Date: 04/18/2005 22:05:05
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 06:51:16PM +1000, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> I intend to move postinstall from /etc to /usr/sbin, and make
> it part of the 'base' set.
> 
> Benefits:
> 
>     *	Removes the need for funky invocation instructions for
> 	postinstall, such as "extract etc.tgz".
> 
>     *	Many of the issues that postinstall checks/fixes are
> 	related to new versions of applications in the 'base'
> 	set, not just the configuration files in 'etc'.
> 
> 
> I'm still considering whether this gets installed as a script
> from in usr.sbin/etcupdate, or I create a separate
> usr.sbin/postinstall.
> 
> Any comments ?

Have you remembered that sysinst runs postinstall after exploding etc.tgz ?

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk