"Ja'far Railton" <zen25058@zen.co.uk> writes:
> I'd appreciate a quick hint about a step in the etcupdate process. It's about
> mtree, which I have tried to find out about, but still don't understand
> really what it does. I will look into it further - if anyone can point
> me somewhere other than the FM - but in the meantime, should I choose d or i
> for the questions about the /etc/mtree files?
>
> Guess: mtree is some kind of record of the file permissions I have
> changed 

no.

> and so should not be overwritten.

It is probably safe to overwrite.

man mtree. also poke around a bit.

Perry