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.\" $NetBSD: etcupdate.8,v 1.1.1.1 2001/11/20 09:53:55 martti Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2001 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
.\" by Martti Kuparinen.
.\"
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.\"
.Dd November 14, 2001
.Dt ETCUPDATE 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm etcupdate
.Nd update the configuration files in
.Pa /etc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl h
.Op Fl p Ar pager
.Op Fl s Ar srcdir
.Op Fl t Ar temproot
.Op Fl v
.Op Fl w Ar width
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Pa etcupdate
is a tool to update the configuration files in
.Pa /etc
without the need of manually checking and modifying every file.
The user should run this script after performing an operating system
update (i.e. after running
.Pa make build
in
.Pa /usr/src
) to use the latest configuration files during reboot.
.Pa etcupdate
will first create a copy of the new configuration files and compare these
against the installed files. The user is given an option of installing,
merging or deleting of each modified or missing files.
.Pa etcupdate
also notes if the user installs certain special files and performs
corresponding tasks like remaking the device nodes or rebuilding a database
from the
.Pa /etc/mail/aliases
file.
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
.Pa TEMPROOT
The temporary files created from
.Pa /usr/src/etc
will be stored here. These files will then be compared
against the currently installed files in the
.Pa /etc
directory. By default this is
.Pa /tmp/temproot
but can be changed either with the
.Fl t Ar temproot
argument or by defining the
.Pa TEMPROOT
variable.
.Pa SRCDIR
The location of the NetBSD sources files. By default this is
.Pa /usr/src
but can be changed either with the
.Fl s Ar srcdir
argument or by defining the
.Pa SRCDIR
variable.
.Pa PAGER
The pager to use when displaying files. By default this is
.Pa /usr/bin/more
but can be changed either with the
.Fl p Ar pager
argument or by defining the
.Pa PAGER
variable.
.Pa WIDTH
The screen width used during interactive merge. By default this is
.Pa 80
but can be changed either with the
.Fl w Ar width
argument or by defining the
.Pa WIDTH
variable.
This is useful for
.Pa xterm(1)
users with wider shell windows.
.Sh FILES
The environment variables can also be defined in the following configuration
files. The user's personal configuration file settings override the global
settings.
.Pa /etc/etcupdate.conf
.Pa ~/.etcupdaterc
.Sh EXAMPLES
You have just upgraded your NetBSD host from 1.5.2 to 1.5.3 and now it's time
to update the configuration files as well. This can be done with the
following command:
.Dl etcupdate
To get a better idea what's going on, use the
.Fl v
flag:
.Dl etcupdate -v
The default location of the source files is
.Pa /usr/src
but this may be overridden with the
.Fl s Ar srcdir
command line argument:
.Dl etcupdate -s /some/where/src
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Pa etcupdate
command appeared in NetBSD 1.5.3.
.Sh AUTHORS
The
script was written by Martti Kuparinen <martti@netbsd.org> and
improved by several other NetBSD users.
The idea for this script (including code fragments, variable names etc.)
came from the FreeBSD mergemaster (by Douglas Barton). Unlike the
FreeBSD mergemaster, this does not use CVS version tags to compare if
the files need to be updated. Files are compared with
.Pa /usr/bin/cmp
as this is more reliable and the only way if the version numbers are
same even though the files are different.
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