From nobody Mon Jun 07 18:25:51 2021 X-Original-To: freebsd-current@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4ACCE586C2 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2021 18:25:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.freebsd.org (smtp.freebsd.org [96.47.72.83]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.freebsd.org", Issuer "R3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4FzMJ04k79z3nYS; Mon, 7 Jun 2021 18:25:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from John-Baldwins-MacBook-Pro.local (ralph.baldwin.cx [66.234.199.215]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: jhb) by smtp.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 223352F013; Mon, 7 Jun 2021 18:25:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Subject: Re: Files in /etc containing empty VCSId header To: Michael Gmelin , "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" References: <20210520183705.3673dfb2@bsd64.grem.de> From: John Baldwin Message-ID: <2bd37d63-1806-b621-a32b-954c912bd16b@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 11:25:51 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20210520183705.3673dfb2@bsd64.grem.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On 5/20/21 9:37 AM, Michael Gmelin wrote: > Hi, > > After a binary update using freebsd-update, all files in /etc contain > "empty" VCS Id headers, e.g., > > $ head /etc/nsswitch.conf > # > # nsswitch.conf(5) - name service switch configuration file > # $FreeBSD$ > # > group: compat > group_compat: nis > hosts: files dns > netgroup: compat > networks: files > passwd: compat > > After migrating to git, I would've expected those to contain something > else or disappear completely. Is this expected and are there any plans > to remove them completely? I believe we might eventually remove them in the future, but doing so right now would introduce a lot of churn and the conversion to git had enough other churn going on. -- John Baldwin