Re: etcupdate and DESTDIR

["Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724%bellsouth.net@localhost>]

> On Wed, 20 Nov 2013, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > I look in "man etcupdate" and see nothing that supports updating
> > /etc on a different partition.
         
> I recently encountered the same issue myself.  In about two weeks, I'll
> be able to look at adding a "-d DESTDIR" option to etcupdate, unless
> somebody else does so first.
        
--apb (Alan Barrett)

As I pointed out, it would be helpful.  I wish you well!

FreeBSD's counterpart to etcupdate, which is mergemaster, supports a DESTDIR 
option.

This feature for etcupdate would also be helpful with sysbuild and sysupgrade.

Tom