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Thomas Schweikle <tschweikle@gmail.com> writes:
> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@freebsd.org> writes:
> > What did you use prior to etcupdate?  When was /etc last updated?
> The last time mergemaster was available.  Later on it was done
> manually, since etcupdate did not work.
>
> My findings: etcupdate just does not work, because right after cloning
> etc is not in a working state.

etcupdate works just fine for everybody else.

I suggest you download base.txz for the release that most closely
matches what you had when you last updated /etc, and extract
/var/db/etcupdate from it.

DES
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