On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 10:04:05PM -0500, jordon wrote: > > On Oct 7, 2014, at 21:56, Jonathan Gray <j...@jsg.id.au> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 07:50:34PM -0500, jordon wrote: > >> SoâÂÅ did I miss a memo or have a severe brain fart or is the etc.tgz > >> file missing in the current snapshot for armv7? > > > > The etc set has moved into base in -current snapshots so the infrastructure > > to mirror snapshots has changed to not copy out the etc set. > > > > The problem is the armv7 snapshot is so old it was still built with an > > external etc set. > > > > So yes, the etc set is missing. This is unlikely to change until another > > snapshot is built. The current snapshot also lacks the fix to make > > the eMMC on the rev C BeagleBone Black work. > > Ahh. Thanks. That makes sense. The installer kept failing, though this > time I told it to continue anyway. Weâll see if it works⊠> > So going forward, where is this kind of info available? I searched the > openbsd-arm mail list for etc.tgz but found nothing (though if > this is a system wide change, it probably wouldnât be in arm). Looking at > http://www.openbsd.org/plus.html, i now see several references > to etc and moving stuff to base, but no explicit âetc set is goneâ. Do I > just have to pay more attention to the mail list? >
Changes to -current that may need some manual steps should be documented on http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html There does not seem to be a note about the etc set, if the snapshot were up to date it would be transparent as the installer extracts it from the base set.
