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

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost> writes:

> On 13/06/2019 09:00, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 06:17:29AM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> I've been using etcupdate for ages so I only ever really used
>>> postinstall to fix "obsolete" and "catpages".  etcupdate -a has some
>>> kinks and may be we should concentrate on fixing those instead?
>>
>> I *never* used etcupdate, so for me it's better to have a working postinstall
>> (I have a PR about it: install/52349, which may have been fixed by the
>> recent change)
>
> I used etc-update once and accidently overwrote master.passwd
> Never used it since, far too risky.

etcmanage, in pkgsrc, was designed to specifically avoid touching any
file unless it is reliably recorded as matching upstream.