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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS .\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR .\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF .\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS .\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN .\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .Dd June 12, 2014 .Dt ETCUPDATE 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm etcupdate .Nd update the configuration and startup files in .Pa /etc .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl ahlv .Op Fl d Ar destdir .Op Fl p Ar pager .Op Fl s Brq Ar srcdir | Ar tgzdir | Ar tgzfile .Op Fl t Ar temproot .Op Fl w Ar width .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm is a tool that lets the administrator update the configuration and startup files in .Pa /etc (and some other directories like .Pa /dev , .Pa /root and .Pa /var ) without having to manually check and modify every file. The administrator should run this script after performing an operating system update (e.g. after running .Pa make build in .Pa /usr/src or after extracting new binary distribution files) to update to the latest configuration and startup files. .Pp .Nm compares the new configuration files against the currently installed files. The user is given the option of installing, merging or deleting each modified or missing file. The user can also view the differences between the files. By default, it shows the differences in the unified diff format. The default format can be toggled to show the differences in unified, context, or side by side formats or an user-defined command may be used to view differences. (And if .Nm wdiff is installed, it can also show differences on a word by word basis.) .Pp .Nm also detects if the user installs certain special files and performs corresponding tasks like remaking device nodes or rebuilding a database from the .Xr aliases 5 file. Finally, .Nm runs .Xr postinstall 8 to check the results. .Pp .Nm needs a clean set of new configuration files to compare the existing files against. These files, called the .Dq reference files in this manual, may be derived from either a source or binary distribution of .Nx . .Pp If the user is updating from sources (which is the default mode), .Nm will first create a copy of the reference files by running .Pa make distribution in .Pa /usr/src/etc , installing the files to a so-called .Pa temproot . (See usage of the .Fl s Ar srcdir and .Fl t Ar temproot options later in this manual page.) Although this is the default mode, it is not recommended (see the .Dq BUGS section). .Pp Instead of using sources, it is recommended that the user should extract one or more binary distribution sets in a special location and use those as the reference files (see usage of the .Fl s Ar tgzdir option later in this manual page), or specify one or more binary distribution sets directly (see usage of the .Fl s Ar tgzfile option later in this manual page). .Pp The following options are available: .Bl -tag -width XXtXtemprootX .It Fl a .Nm can automatically update files which have not been modified locally. The .Fl a flag instructs .Nm to store MD5 checksums in .Pa /var/etcupdate and use these checksums to determine if there have been any local modifications. .It Fl d Ar destdir Use .Ar destdir instead of .Pa / as the top of the file system hierarchy to be updated. For example, .Ar destdir Ns Pa /etc will be used instead of .Pa /etc . .It Fl h Prints a help text. .It Fl l Automatically skip files with unchanged RCS IDs. This has the effect of leaving alone files that have been altered locally but which have not been changed in the reference files. Since this works using RCS IDs, files without RCS IDs will not be skipped even if only modified locally. This flag may be used together with the .Fl a flag described above. .It Fl p Ar pager The pager to use when displaying files. By default this is .Xr more 1 but it can be changed either with this option or by defining the .Ev PAGER variable. .It Fl s Brq Ar srcdir | Ar tgzdir | Ar tgzfile The location of the reference files, or the .Nx source files used to create the reference files. This may be specified in one of three ways: .Bl -tag -width XXsXtgzfileXX .It Fl s Ar srcdir The top level directory of the .Nx source tree. By default this is .Pa /usr/src but it can be changed either with this option or the .Ev SRCDIR variable. The reference files will be created by running .Dq "make distribution" in the .Ar srcdir Ns Pa /etc directory. Note that .Ar srcdir should refer to the top of the source directory tree; earlier versions of .Nm expected .Ar srcdir to refer to the .Pa etc subdirectory within the source tree. .It Fl s Ar tgzdir A directory in which reference files have been extracted from a binary distribution of .Nx . The files that are distributed in the .Dq Pa etc.tgz set file must be present. The files that are distributed in the .Dq Pa xetc.tgz set file are optional. The reference files from the specified directory will be copied to the .Pa temproot directory. .It Fl s Ar tgzfile The location of a set file (or .Dq "tgz file" ) such as .Dq Pa etc.tgz or .Dq Pa xetc.tgz from a binary distribution of .Nx . Each set file is a compressed archive containing reference files, which will be extracted to the .Pa temproot directory. Multiple .Fl s options may be used to specify multiple set files. The .Dq Pa etc.tgz set file must be specified. The .Dq Pa xetc.tgz set file is optional. .El .It Fl t Ar temproot Specifies the location of the .Pa temproot directory. This directory will be used for a temporary copy of the reference files created by running .Dq "make distribution" in the source directory specified by .Fl s Ar srcdir , or a temporary copy of the reference files extracted from the binary sets specified by .Fl s Ar tgzfile , or a temporary copy of the reference files from the directory specified by .Fl s Ar tempdir . By default this is .Pa /tmp/temproot but can be changed either with this option or the .Ev TEMPROOT environment variable. .It Fl v Makes .Nm verbose about its actions. .It Fl w Ar width Sets screen width used during interactive merge. By default this is the number of columns .Xr stty 1 reports but it can be changed either with this option or by defining the .Ev WIDTH variable. This is useful for .Xr xterm 1 users with wider shell windows. .El .Sh ENVIRONMENT .Bl -tag -width IGNOREFILESXX .It Ev TEMPROOT Sets a default value for .Pa temproot . See .Fl t above. .It Ev SRCDIR The location of the .Nx sources files. See .Fl s above. .It Ev PAGER The pager to use when displaying files. See .Fl p above. .It Ev WIDTH The screen width used during interactive merge. See .Fl w above. .It Ev IGNOREFILES A list of files that .Nm should ignore. Files listed in this variable will never be considered for updating by .Nm . .El .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. .Pp /etc/etcupdate.conf .Pp ~/.etcupdaterc .Sh EXAMPLES You have just upgraded your .Nx host from 3.0 to 4.0 and now it's time to update the configuration files as well. To update the configuration files from the sources (if you have the .Pa /usr/src/etc directory): .Pp .Dl etcupdate .Pp 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: .Pp .Dl etcupdate -s /some/where/src .Pp To update the configuration files from binary distribution sets do something like this: .Pp .Dl etcupdate -s /some/where/etc.tgz -s /some/where/xetc.tgz .Pp or like this: .Pp .Dl mkdir /tmp/temproot .Dl cd /tmp/temproot .Dl tar -xpzf /some/where/etc.tgz .Dl tar -xpzf /some/where/xetc.tgz .Dl etcupdate -s /tmp/temproot .Pp You have modified only few files in the .Pa /etc directory so you would like install most of the updates without being asked. To automatically update the unmodified configuration files: .Pp .Dl etcupdate -a .Pp To get a better idea what's going on, use the .Fl v flag: .Pp .Dl etcupdate -v .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr cmp 1 , .Xr more 1 , .Xr rcs 1 , .Xr sdiff 1 , .Xr stty 1 , .Xr aliases 5 , .Xr postinstall 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm command appeared in .Nx 1.6 . .Pp In .Nx 4.0 , the .Fl s Ar tgzfile option was added, the .Fl b Ar tempdir option was converted to .Fl s Ar tgzdir , and the .Fl s Ar srcdir option was changed to refer to the top of the source directory tree rather than to the .Pa etc subdirectory. .Pp In .Nx 5.0 , the ability to specify multiple colon-separated files with a single .Fl s option was deprecated, and options deprecated in .Nx 4.0 were removed. .Pp In .Nx 7.0 , the ability to specify multiple colon-separated files with a single .Fl s option was removed (multiple .Fl s options must be used instead), and the .Fl d Ar destdir option was added. .Sh AUTHORS The script was written by .An Martti Kuparinen .Aq martti@NetBSD.org and improved by several other .Nx users. .Pp The idea for this script (including code fragments, variable names etc.) came from the .Fx mergemaster (by Douglas Barton). Unlike the .Fx mergemaster, this does not use CVS version tags by default to compare if the files need to be updated. Files are compared with .Xr cmp 1 as this is more reliable and the only way if the version numbers are the same even though the files are different. .\" when exactly are the version the same even though the file changes? .\" .Pp .Sh BUGS If a source directory is specified via the .Dq Fl s Ar srcdir option (or if the .Pa /usr/src directory is used by default), then .Nm will run .Dq "make distribution" in the .Pa etc subdirectory of the source directory, but it will not use the same options or environment variables that would be used during a full build of the operating system. For this reason, use of the .Dq Fl s Ar srcdir option is not recommended, and use of the .Dq Fl s Ar tgzdir or .Dq Fl s Ar tgzfile options is recommended. .\" .Pp .\" Because of the use of .\" .Xr cmp 1 .\" to compare files, rather than CVS versions, files that are locally changed .\" from the distribution are always considered needing to be updated.