Re: etc.tgz on armv7 snapshot

[Jonathan Gray]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 11:00:59PM -0500, jordon wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 

Yes, because the snapshot was built before the change was made.
The etc sets were removed in all of the snapshots after the change was made.

If you try to install with what is in the armv7 snapshot directory at the
moment it will not work.