Updating to HEAD removes /etc/rc.subr?

[Matthew Seaman]

On 21/09/2019 10:16, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 21/09/2019 09:59, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>> So, I have a VM running current which I maintain by building packages.
>> On doing a routine update, I see the following:
>>
>> ```
>> codling:~:# etcupdate
>> Warnings:
>>   Removed file changed: /etc/rc.d/growfs
>>   Removed file changed: /etc/rc.subr
>> ```
>>
>> Looks like there were quite a lot of changes in the packaging layout
>> between the last time I updated (Git says: b31afabd4c1-c262274(master))
>> and yesterday when I pulled the latest source from git.  One of those
>> changes is that there seems to be a new FreeBSD-rc base package:
>>
>> ```
>> codling:/usr/src:# pkg install FreeBSD-rc
>> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
>> pkg: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/meta.txz: No address
>> record
>> repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings
>> FreeBSD repository is up to date.
>> Updating base repository catalogue...
>> base repository is up to date.
>> All repositories are up to date.
>> Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
>> The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
>>
>> New packages to be INSTALLED:
>> 	FreeBSD-rc: 13.0.s20190920215733 [base]
>>
>> Number of packages to be installed: 1
>>
>> Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
>> [1/1] Installing FreeBSD-rc-13.0.s20190920215733...
>> [1/1] Extracting FreeBSD-rc-13.0.s20190920215733: 100%
>> ```
>>
>> Unfortunately it didn't get installed as part of the routine update.
>>
>> Easily fixed (as above), but now I'm wondering what other packages I
>> should have installed but don't.  Is there a meta-port or some such that
>> will ensure my FreeBSD system has all the essentials needed to boot?
>>
> 
> Seems that the bootloader also goes missing in much the same way...
> 
> ```
> codling:/usr/home/matthew:# pkg search -x '^FreeBSD.*boot'
> FreeBSD-bootloader-13.0.s20190920215733 Bootloader
> codling:/usr/home/matthew:# pkg info -x '^FreeBSD.*boot'
> pkg: No package(s) matching ^FreeBSD.*boot
> codling:/usr/home/matthew:# pkg install FreeBSD-bootloader
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> FreeBSD repository is up to date.
> Updating base repository catalogue...
> base repository is up to date.
> All repositories are up to date.
> Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
> The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
> 
> New packages to be INSTALLED:
> 	FreeBSD-bootloader: 13.0.s20190920215733 [base]
> 
> Number of packages to be installed: 1
> 
> The process will require 4 MiB more space.
> 
> Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
> [1/1] Installing FreeBSD-bootloader-13.0.s20190920215733...
> [1/1] Extracting FreeBSD-bootloader-13.0.s20190920215733: 100%
> ```
> 
> Ooops.
> 

Oh, and it replaced /etc/master.passwd and /etc/mail/aliases with the
default versions.  Thank heavens for /var/backups

Double oops.  Nothing particularly disastrous, so long as you're
expecting the breakage and know how to fix things.

	Cheers,

	Matthew



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