Re: DESTDIR support for etcupdate?

[Ilia Zykov <netbsd%izyk.ru@localhost>]

On 09.06.2014 12:20, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Is there any way to run etcupdate for NetBSD on other than the current root?
>
> This would be useful for a new installation from an existing installation, 
> building from source, on a different device, such as USB stick to hard-drive 
> partition, or vice versa.  
>
> I have a USB-stick installation, ran newfs on hard-drive partition, made 
> appropriate directories, used cvs to checkout and update src and pkgsrc 
> trees, ran build.sh to build and install system, but still need to get /etc 
> and /dev more ready.
>
> FreeBSD's mergemaster, which is their counterpart to NetBSD's etcupdate, has 
> an option -D (destdir) to work on a different destination directory.
>
> Tom
>
>

Maybe:
cp /some/where/etc.tgz  /newroot/tmp
chroot /newroot
etcupdate -s /tmp/etc.tgz