Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 10:54:41 -0700 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Files in /etc containing empty VCSId header Message-ID: <f9039676-0e87-2409-7ae7-2d85ed291541@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <2a280bc83d9a6289b3443329eb15bb0cb6c75063.camel@freebsd.org> References: <20210520183705.3673dfb2@bsd64.grem.de> <2bd37d63-1806-b621-a32b-954c912bd16b@FreeBSD.org> <CANCZdfo59R2Gd%2B-KB1=WvPY-RxR4h4U9ikAECHOnCddqh3VVRw@mail.gmail.com> <2a280bc83d9a6289b3443329eb15bb0cb6c75063.camel@freebsd.org>
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On 6/7/21 12:58 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Mon, 2021-06-07 at 13:53 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 12:26 PM John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >>> On 5/20/21 9:37 AM, Michael Gmelin wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> After a binary update using freebsd-update, all files in /etc >>>> contain >>>> "empty" VCS Id headers, e.g., >>>> >>>> $ head /etc/nsswitch.conf >>>> # >>>> # nsswitch.conf(5) - name service switch configuration file >>>> # $FreeBSD$ >>>> # >>>> group: compat >>>> group_compat: nis >>>> hosts: files dns >>>> netgroup: compat >>>> networks: files >>>> passwd: compat >>>> >>>> After migrating to git, I would've expected those to contain >>>> something >>>> else or disappear completely. Is this expected and are there any >>>> plans >>>> to remove them completely? >>> >>> I believe we might eventually remove them in the future, but doing >>> so >>> right now would introduce a lot of churn and the conversion to git >>> had enough other churn going on. >>> >> >> We'd planned on not removing things that might be merged to stable/12 >> since >> those releases (12.3 only I think) will be built out of svn. We'll >> likely >> start to >> remove things more widely as the stable/12 branch reaches EOL and >> after. >> >> Warner > > It would be really nice if, instead of just deleting the $FreeBSD$ > markers, they could be replaced with the path/filename of the file in > the source tree. Sometimes it's a real interesting exercise to figure > out where a file on your runtime system comes from in the source world. > All the source tree layout changes that happened for packaged-base > makes it even more interesting. My hope is that we un-break src/etc. :( A few folks have looked at doing that (notably Kyle). -- John Baldwinhelp
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