>
> What about manual upgrade installation?
> (i.e. extracting all sets except etc,
> then updating etc and others by postinstall(8))
Perhaps move these two files to the base set then?
> I'm afraid certain old users also want "postinstall -s etc.tgz fix"
> just works as the past releases, without manually extracting
> "those two files" from etc.tgz.
>
> IMO postintall(8) itself should install (update) /var/db/obsolete
> (and other necessary files) from ${ETCTGZDIR} in TGZMODE case,
> rather than sysinst(8).
That would be a better solution I think. I guess the expedient solution
is to commit your suggestion with a comment to look at this PR for
coming up with a better way.
christos
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