Re: PR/54730 CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/postinstall

[Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>]

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From: Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>
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Subject: Re: PR/54730 CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/postinstall
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 12:47:01 -0500

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 > 
 > 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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