Re: bin/59574: running etcupdate -s $SRC generates cruft unter $SRC

[Harold Gutch <logix%foobar.franken.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2025 at 05:20:01PM +0000, Valery Ushakov via gnats wrote:
>  I don't think srcdir mode has been used much or tested recently.  I'm
>  not sure it makes sense to fix that, as it was supposed to be used
>  along with make installworld (if i remember the target name right),
>  and I'm not sure we still meaningfully support in-situ updates.
>  
>  You can/should use "build.sh ... distribution sets" and then
>  
>      etcupdate ... -s .../etc.tgz -s .../xetc.tgz

Hm, I thought I had used it a number of times in srcdir mode in the
past, but perhaps I am wrong.  It is documented on
https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-updating.html#updating-configfiles .

If it's not working and should not be used, then we probably should
remove it entirely (or at the very minimum change the documentation
there).

Looking at the small number of files that have issues, I am wondering
if this broke only somewhat recently.  For example, the files under
pam.d .d are exactly the ones generated from ".in" files, this got
added in December It doesn't seem far fetched that this was working
until (for example) a year ago.


  Harold