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Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> writes:
> But I specifically made the "distribution" target in
> src/etc/Makefile install the device.hints file, in a hope that
> mergemaster(8) will pick it up.  Is it not the case?

Yup.  Could you please do the same with loader.rc?  It's currently the
only file in the system that is never updated by world or mergemaster.

> Ah, it looks like mergemaster(8) only cares about updating /etc,
> which is bad.  :-(

wrong, mergemaster handles /boot/device.hints just fine.

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