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Date:      Mon, 08 May 2023 17:56:24 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 271287] etcupdate silently installs empty files / unhandled error in install_new()
Message-ID:  <bug-271287-227-CnCEQPrEGO@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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--- Comment #5 from Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> ---
(In reply to John Baldwin from comment #4)
Yes. Maybe use better wording in the panic message to tell the user "This f=
ile
is broken now, you must fix it manually" too.=20
Thinking about it again, this kind of error message fits this specific case
only but the cp can fail for many other reasons - /etc/ can be read only - =
and
in this case the target file will be intact but user still need to know tha=
t cp
failed.
The biggest problem now is that etcupdate do not show any errors from the c=
p. I
was not noticed about anything and ended up with more than 80 files broken.
If etcupdate stop on the first copy error, tell the user "Houston, we have a
problem", then user can take some actions to fix it before reboot.

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