Re: "etcupdate extract" -- Failed to build new tree.

On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Thomas Schweikle <tschweikle@gmail.com> writes:
> > "etcupdate extract" exhausts "Failed to build new tree."
>
> Why are you trying to run it in the first place?  It should not be
> necessary except in very specific and unusual circumstances.  Just run
> `etcupdate -B` (and, if necessary, `etcupdate resolve) after `make
> installworld`.
>

This gives error: "No previous tree to compare against, a sane comparison
is not possible."
Means you are stuck with etc not updated at all.

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>
-- 
Thomas