On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 09:26:49AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
> I had assumed that in a pkgbase setup, one wouldn't use etcupdate or 
> mergemaster.
> Instead, my understanding is that pkg was going to "learn" about configuration
> files and would grow etcupdate-like functionality to merge in changes to 
> configuration
> files during upgrades (and would also support 'pkg confdiff', etc. so that
> 'pkg confdiff -a' would replace 'etcupdate diff' for example, but would also 
> support
> packages built from ports, not just base system conf files).  Each pkgbase 
> package
> would contain its associated /etc files as configuration files in this scheme.

To that end Will and I have been working on a patch to move all files in 
head/etc/
to the places they belong.  I am probably ~75% of the way through them so
far.  Once I get the last bit wrapped up, I will post a review.


Regards,
Brad Davis

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