On 09.06.2014 12:20, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Is there any way to run etcupdate for NetBSD on other than the current root? > > This would be useful for a new installation from an existing installation, > building from source, on a different device, such as USB stick to hard-drive > partition, or vice versa. > > I have a USB-stick installation, ran newfs on hard-drive partition, made > appropriate directories, used cvs to checkout and update src and pkgsrc > trees, ran build.sh to build and install system, but still need to get /etc > and /dev more ready. > > FreeBSD's mergemaster, which is their counterpart to NetBSD's etcupdate, has > an option -D (destdir) to work on a different destination directory. > > Tom > >
Maybe: cp /some/where/etc.tgz /newroot/tmp chroot /newroot etcupdate -s /tmp/etc.tgz
