On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 5:33 AM Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> On 2021-07-21, David Higgs <hig...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was looking into how to configure unwind for my needs, and found > > significant discrepancies between /etc/examples/unwind.conf and the > > unwind.conf(5) manual. Namely, the example file had lots of captive > portal > > info, while the manual made no mention of it. > > > > After browsing source history, I learned that when captive portal support > > was removed, the example config was removed. > > > > I'm going to compare the contents of etc.tgz versus my /etc/examples > > directory to avoid confusion in the future, but should sysmerge(8) have > > removed example files such as this? > > sysmerge doesn't deal with files in /etc/examples, they aren't expected > to be modified in-place so they are just overwritten as part of > extracting the base set. As with other files in the base there's nothing > to remove old ones no longer present, but you can use "sysclean" (in > packages) to identify files in system directories that aren't present > in base - either local additions or obsolete files - if you'd like to > remove them. > Oh, that makes more sense. I use sysclean on my -stable systems, but not on this VM running -current. I had somehow gotten the idea in my head that sysmerge ingested files from /etc/examples to perform updates - and thus they were treated differently - but clearly I was very wrong. I wonder if there would be any benefit to a sysclean-like tool as part of a standard upgrade/sysmerge that automatically deletes everything older than the (supported) current and prior release? It would remove the need to curate removal lists in upgrade.html. Just an idle thought... pay me no mind. Apologies for the noise. --david
