Re: etcupdate -- is there a way to get it to delete $FreeBSD$ strings from my files?

> On Nov 22, 2025, at 10:16 AM, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> 
> "Dan Mahoney (Ports)" <freebsd@gushi.org <mailto:freebsd@gushi.org>> writes:
> 
>> Hey there folks,
>> 
>> I grok that etcupdate is supposed to help me gently merge changes in
>> from a new source tree into my existing tree in /etc. but as of now,
>> most files in /etc don't have the $FreeBSD$ ident strings in them
>> anymore (because we've moved to Git, which doesn't use this (although
>> I miss it and wish it did))
>> 
>> Anyway, most of my stock /etc files still have this string in them, because it started life as a much older system that's been upgraded for a long time.
>> 
>> An "etcupdate diff" still shows these strings, and yes, I can pass -F
>> to ignore those version strings, but at what point will etcupdate be
>> modified to no longer use these strings at all?
>> 
>> Is there a good global way to just tell etcupdate to rip these no-longer-relevant strings out, instead of nicely merging around them?
>> 
>> Alternately, is there a way to just tell etcupdate "blow away changes in most files, I am prepared to have puppet re-apply all my local changes"
> 
> Revert Mode? Extract mode? They all have some minor inconveniences, but
> if you don't have anything you want to keep from the installed versions,
> you wouldn't really care...

"etcupdate extract" still leaves me with an /etc with the old $FreeBSD tags in it.  I'm not sure to where it's extracting, but it doesn't seem to be to my /etc tree.

-Dan