Files in /etc containing empty VCSId header

[Michael Gmelin]

Hi,

After a binary update using freebsd-update, all files in /etc contain
"empty" VCS Id headers, e.g.,

$ head /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# nsswitch.conf(5) - name service switch configuration file
# $FreeBSD$
#
group: compat
group_compat: nis
hosts: files dns
netgroup: compat
networks: files
passwd: compat

After migrating to git, I would've expected those to contain something
else or disappear completely. Is this expected and are there any plans
to remove them completely?

Best
Michael

[John Baldwin]

Post by Michael Gmelin
Hi,
After a binary update using freebsd-update, all files in /etc contain
"empty" VCS Id headers, e.g.,
$ head /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# nsswitch.conf(5) - name service switch configuration file
# $FreeBSD$
#
group: compat
group_compat: nis
hosts: files dns
netgroup: compat
networks: files
passwd: compat
After migrating to git, I would've expected those to contain something
else or disappear completely. Is this expected and are there any plans
to remove them completely?

I believe we might eventually remove them in the future, but doing so
right now would introduce a lot of churn and the conversion to git
had enough other churn going on.

[Warner Losh]

Post by John Baldwin

Post by Michael Gmelin
Hi,
After a binary update using freebsd-update, all files in /etc contain
"empty" VCS Id headers, e.g.,
$ head /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# nsswitch.conf(5) - name service switch configuration file
# $FreeBSD$
#
group: compat
group_compat: nis
hosts: files dns
netgroup: compat
networks: files
passwd: compat
After migrating to git, I would've expected those to contain something
else or disappear completely. Is this expected and are there any plans
to remove them completely?

I believe we might eventually remove them in the future, but doing so
right now would introduce a lot of churn and the conversion to git
had enough other churn going on.

We'd planned on not removing things that might be merged to stable/12 since
those releases (12.3 only I think) will be built out of svn. We'll likely
start to
remove things more widely as the stable/12 branch reaches EOL and after.

Warner

[Ian Lepore]

Post by Warner Losh

Post by John Baldwin

Post by Michael Gmelin
Hi,
After a binary update using freebsd-update, all files in /etc contain
"empty" VCS Id headers, e.g.,
$ head /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# nsswitch.conf(5) - name service switch configuration file
# $FreeBSD$
#
group: compat
group_compat: nis
hosts: files dns
netgroup: compat
networks: files
passwd: compat
After migrating to git, I would've expected those to contain something
else or disappear completely. Is this expected and are there any plans
to remove them completely?

I believe we might eventually remove them in the future, but doing so
right now would introduce a lot of churn and the conversion to git
had enough other churn going on.

We'd planned on not removing things that might be merged to stable/12 since
those releases (12.3 only I think) will be built out of svn. We'll likely
start to
remove things more widely as the stable/12 branch reaches EOL and after.
Warner

It would be really nice if, instead of just deleting the $FreeBSD$
markers, they could be replaced with the path/filename of the file in
the source tree. Sometimes it's a real interesting exercise to figure
out where a file on your runtime system comes from in the source world.
All the source tree layout changes that happened for packaged-base
makes it even more interesting.

-- Ian