> On Oct 7, 2014, at 22:54, Jonathan Gray <j...@jsg.id.au> wrote:
> 
> 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:
>>>> So
 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.  We’ll 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 wouldn’t 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 “etc set is gone”.  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.
> 

Installer expects etc.tgz and there isn’t one.  I tell it to continue but it 
just tries again.


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