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Date:      Wed, 22 May 2019 12:56:26 -0700
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, Renato Botelho <garga@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Brad Davis <brd@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r347961 - head
Message-ID:  <a21183c9-dcfe-7dc0-3fb4-1380e4a22f38@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20190522124822.GA99369@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201905181936.x4IJaNir001183@repo.freebsd.org> <47ad59b3-5adf-20bf-5dcc-23da82610cea@FreeBSD.org> <20190522124822.GA99369@FreeBSD.org>

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On 5/22/19 5:48 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 09:42:29AM -0300, Renato Botelho wrote:
>> On 18/05/19 16:36, Brad Davis wrote:
>>> New Revision: 347961
>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/347961
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>   Add note to UPDATING for users of mergemaster after the move of
>>>   master.passwd and group in r347638.
>>>   
>>>   Approved by:	allanjude (mentor)
>>>
>>> Modified:
>>>   head/UPDATING
>>>
>>> +20190517:
>>> +	For users of mergemaster, after recent changes to locations of
>>> +	master.passwd and group in the source tree mergemaster needs to be
>>> +	updated.  Before running `mergemaster -p', cd to usr.sbin/mergemaster
>>> +	and run `make install'.
>>> +
>>
>> etcupdate is installing group and master.passwd to /lib/libc/gen.  It
>> seems wrong.
>>
>> root@x230:/usr/src # etcupdate -p
>>   A /lib/libc/gen/group
>>   A /lib/libc/gen/master.passwd
> 
> *facepalm*
> 
> Let me ask again: why these files were moved out of their perfectly
> (and likely the only) reasonable location (etc/) under some cryptic
> libc/gen/ which not only makes little sense per se, but also breaks
> mergemaster(8) and similar tools?

Because bmake doesn't support .PATH?  Oh wait...

-- 
John Baldwin



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