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Cc: Olli Hauer <ohauer@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: ports registering services in /etc/services and services_mkdb
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On 06/07/2012 07:37 AM, Olli Hauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> during an update to 8.3 I notice mergemaster from 8.3 is
> building a database from /etc/services with services_mkdb.
> 
> However the ports framework does not provide an automation
> to rebuild this database, even I haven't seen any port which
> triggers a rebuild.

Ports should not be adding entries to /etc/services.

Doug