Roy Marples <[email protected]> writes: > On 13/06/2019 09:00, Manuel Bouyer wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 06:17:29AM +0300, Valery Ushakov wrote: >>> [...] >>> I've been using etcupdate for ages so I only ever really used >>> postinstall to fix "obsolete" and "catpages". etcupdate -a has some >>> kinks and may be we should concentrate on fixing those instead? >> >> I *never* used etcupdate, so for me it's better to have a working postinstall >> (I have a PR about it: install/52349, which may have been fixed by the >> recent change) > > I used etc-update once and accidently overwrote master.passwd > Never used it since, far too risky.
etcmanage, in pkgsrc, was designed to specifically avoid touching any file unless it is reliably recorded as matching upstream.
