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Date:      Sat, 5 Nov 2022 20:12:04 -0700
From:      bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Seeking an idiot's guide to etcupdate/mergemaster
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On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 08:32:17PM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:
> 
> Your /etc/rc.d/ldconfig script seems to have not been updated
> by use of etcupdate or mergemaster or other such. (How much
> else is also out of date? How much of what you have for /etc/
> and the like goes back to 2022-Jan-07 or before?)
>
 
Alas, that is too true. The system was set up on July 2, 2020
and I've never managed to make sense of either mergemaster nor
etcupdate. Far as I could tell it didn't matter, the host ran
correctly, until now.

It's been transplanted to a new hard drive, which allows the
installation of a ports tree. Ports don't install because of
the stale /etc/rc.d/ldconfig file.

Since no changes have been made to /etc/ apart from /etc/rc.conf
is it possible to simply let mergemaster or etcupdate install
the latest defaults? I have looked at the manpage for etcupdate
and didn't recognize any straightforward way to simply accept
all updates. This particular system is expendable, so I'd be
glad to try things that might not work well, or at all. 

Apologies if I'm being dumb (probably guilty) or lazy (definitely
guilty). The barrage of questions generated by etcupdate  and
mergemaster is simply overwhelming. And, I suspect, largely 
unnecessary.   
 
Thanks for reading!

bob prohaska




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