On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 11:43:14PM +0100, Jo MacMahon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently needed to restore the file `/var/unbound/etc/unbound.conf`, which
> is in the base system, to its original version, and assumed I could get it
> out of one of the file sets, most likely `base75.tgz`. However the file is
> not present in base75.tgz and none of the other sets look like they ought to
> have it in. In the end I found the file I needed on GitHub, but I was curious
> as to how it gets put in my system if it's not in a file set.
>
> I noticed the same with `/etc/ssh/sshd_config`.
>
> Are they generated after install time somehow? Or on first run of the
> service? I don't think I had run unbound(8) before.
>
> Jo
>
Once upon a time the config files were in a separate set. These days
they are in the base tarball, packaged in ./var/sysmerge/etc.tgz. So
on installed systems /var/sysmerge has tarballs with the originals.
See sysmerge(8)
-Otto
