On Mon, 2021-06-07 at 13:53 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 12:26 PM John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > On 5/20/21 9:37 AM, Michael Gmelin wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > After a binary update using freebsd-update, all files in /etc > > > contain > > > "empty" VCS Id headers, e.g., > > > > > > $ head /etc/nsswitch.conf > > > # > > > # nsswitch.conf(5) - name service switch configuration file > > > # $FreeBSD$ > > > # > > > group: compat > > > group_compat: nis > > > hosts: files dns > > > netgroup: compat > > > networks: files > > > passwd: compat > > > > > > After migrating to git, I would've expected those to contain > > > something > > > else or disappear completely. Is this expected and are there any > > > plans > > > to remove them completely? > > > > I believe we might eventually remove them in the future, but doing > > so > > right now would introduce a lot of churn and the conversion to git > > had enough other churn going on. > > > > We'd planned on not removing things that might be merged to stable/12 > since > those releases (12.3 only I think) will be built out of svn. We'll > likely > start to > remove things more widely as the stable/12 branch reaches EOL and > after. > > Warner
It would be really nice if, instead of just deleting the $FreeBSD$ markers, they could be replaced with the path/filename of the file in the source tree. Sometimes it's a real interesting exercise to figure out where a file on your runtime system comes from in the source world. All the source tree layout changes that happened for packaged-base makes it even more interesting. -- Ian
