svn commit: r347961 - head

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 09:42:29AM -0300, Renato Botelho wrote:
> On 18/05/19 16:36, Brad Davis wrote:
> > New Revision: 347961
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/347961
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Add note to UPDATING for users of mergemaster after the move of
> >   master.passwd and group in r347638.
> >   
> >   Approved by:	allanjude (mentor)
> > 
> > Modified:
> >   head/UPDATING
> > 
> > +20190517:
> > +	For users of mergemaster, after recent changes to locations of
> > +	master.passwd and group in the source tree mergemaster needs to be
> > +	updated.  Before running `mergemaster -p', cd to usr.sbin/mergemaster
> > +	and run `make install'.
> > +
> 
> etcupdate is installing group and master.passwd to /lib/libc/gen.  It
> seems wrong.
> 
> root at x230:/usr/src # etcupdate -p
>   A /lib/libc/gen/group
>   A /lib/libc/gen/master.passwd

*facepalm*

Let me ask again: why these files were moved out of their perfectly
(and likely the only) reasonable location (etc/) under some cryptic
libc/gen/ which not only makes little sense per se, but also breaks
mergemaster(8) and similar tools?

./danfe