Re: $fetch_pkg_vulnerabilities warning from /etc/daily

[Jeff Rizzo <riz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On 6/12/13 8:59 AM, Erik E. Fair wrote:
> New manual installation (unpacked the tgz files) of NetBSD/sparc64 6.1 for a
> system upgrade. Every run of /etc/daily syslogs:
>
> Jun 11 03:17:15 cesium root: /etc/daily: WARNING: $fetch_pkg_vulnerabilities is 
> not set
> properly - see daily.conf(5).
>
> daily.conf(5) doesn't say what to set it to (not every variable is YES or NO).
> security.conf(5), to which daily.conf(5) points, is similarly cryptic.
>
>         Erik <fair%netbsd.org@localhost>

These days (and perhaps this is where a purported doc problem might be 
surfacing), it is generally recommended to use etcupdate(8) after 
unpacking sets, to merge changes to /etc.  This would have gotten you 
the new defaults.

Something like:

etcupdate -s /path/to/etc.tgz -s /path/to/xetc.tgz

...and follow the prompts.  etcupdate also invokes postinstall(8).

+j