svn commit: r347961 - head

[John Baldwin]

On 5/22/19 5:48 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> 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?

Because bmake doesn't support .PATH?  Oh wait...

-- 
John Baldwin