Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:56:58 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <kargls@comcast.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: incantation for etcupdate to just blow away all old things? Message-ID: <76a68bca-f0dd-4f7a-85a1-61c300abe031@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <75673CAD-3CED-42B0-BE61-23097674C88F@gushi.org> References: <AA91698D-1A81-4D67-B607-FDB87D9B4A41@gushi.org> <aMn0WM9V9xLNduLC@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <75673CAD-3CED-42B0-BE61-23097674C88F@gushi.org>
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On 9/16/25 16:39, Dan Mahoney (Ports) wrote: > > >> On Sep 16, 2025, at 4:35 PM, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 04:11:17PM -0700, Dan Mahoney (Ports) wrote: >>> Hey there folks, >>> >>> In doing a bunch of updates on my 15 VM recently to get around some of the recent breakages, I haven't been fully religious about running etcupdate every time, and it's now complaining that I have some results from a prior merge. >>> >>> The man page is *long*, and we have puppet manifests to alter the few things we care about from a stock system (mostly some sshd stuff). >>> >>> Is there a simple etcupdate command that says "I don't care about fancy 3-way merges and diffs, please just blow my /etc back to stock and I'll correct it with puppet?" >>> >> >> etcupdate revert file > > that seems to be for a single file: > > " The revert mode is used to restore the stock versions of files. In this > mode, etcupdate installs the stock version of requested files. This mode > cannot be used to restore directories, only individual files. > " > > is there a mechanism for *all* of /etc? Never tried it, but you may be about to do find /etc -type f | xargs etcupdate revert -- stevehelp
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