Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:50:53 -0500 From: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@FreeBSD.org>, cyric@mm.st Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 20250515 snapshot packaged install missing /etc/zfs/ directory Message-ID: <1c6f0ef9-a680-484d-b3b5-a08001dbed18@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <86ikifxvlo.fsf@ltc.des.dev> References: <927f37e7-da69-4ac6-b234-7588fea68118@mm.st> <544b585b-b6b4-4748-81f5-7f7b57650741@mm.st> <86ikifxvlo.fsf@ltc.des.dev>
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On 8/22/25 09:46, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > cyric@mm.st writes: >> cyric@mm.st writes: >>> The culprit here seems to be the /etc/zfs/ directory missing after >>> installation, [...] >> That's still the case when installing from >> FreeBSD-15.0-PRERELEASE-amd64-20250819-02a8fadd2c4d-279701-disc1.iso. > > Unlike distribution tarballs, packages don't include empty directories, > and the installer does not run mtree to create them like installworld > does. We need to figure out the best way to do this. A postinstall > script in FreeBSD-mtree might work. Or perhaps it should be done > piecemeal, so FreeBSD-zfs is responsible for creating /etc/zfs, and the > FreeBSD-caroot is responsible for creating /etc/ssl/certs. To me it > seems logical FreeBSD-runtime should create the directory hierarchy, but > FreeBSD-mtree depends on FreeBSD-runtime, so that wouldn't work, unless > we merged FreeBSD-mtree into FreeBSD-runtime. > ISTR that just adding the package= tag in ^/etc/mtree is sufficient to actually package the empty directory. See Lexi's approach for /tmp and /dev in 6b2993e74ebaacd46bd1e438787c23450cd2752d.home | help
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