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Date:      Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:27:23 +0200
From:      Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com>
To:        Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Problems upgrading -current with pkgbase
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On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 2:46 PM Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 4:37 AM Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to upgrade my -current with pkgbase, using boot environments:
> > $ bectl list
> > BE           Active Mountpoint Space Created
> > 13C-20190902 NR     /          72.3G 2019-09-02 13:43
> > 13C-20190916 -      /tmp/be_mount.JZ2z         127M  2019-09-18 11:21
> >
> > Trying to go from a checkout 20190902 to 20190916, and it seems there
> have
> > been some reorganization as how packages are created, quite a few smaller
> > utilities like
> >
> > FreeBSD-libutil-13.0.s20190902093212
> > FreeBSD-libcom_err-13.0.s20190902093212
> > FreeBSD-libz-13.0.s20190902093212
> >
> > seems to have been merged into
> > FreeBSD-utilities: 13.0.s20190916114708
> >
> > However, after upgrading all packages and installing FreeBSD-runtime, I
> > notice that my /etc/passwd is reset to what is found on a new install.
> >
> > How to go about doing this upgrade without having important files reset
> to
> > "factory default"?
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> I filed a pkg PR about this a couple days ago:
> https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/1781 -- we can enumerate the
> files that are being reset with those that manu's recently tagged for
> inclusion into a package to backup-and-restore manually around the
> upgrade for the time being, but the PR will be resolved in due time.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kyle Evans
>

Hello,

thanks for the information!

Best regards
Andreas



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