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Authored by delphij on Jan 29 2026, 3:32 AM.
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PR: bin/292773
MFC after: 1 week

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I'm not very familiar with etcupdate internals but this seems reasonable to me. OTOH I don't know what clutter the comment is referring to.

It'd be nice to add a regression test for this.

usr.sbin/etcupdate/etcupdate.sh
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Presumably this comment needs to be updated too?

Add regression test for installing empty files.

Verified with the change reverted and applied.

delphij added inline comments.
usr.sbin/etcupdate/etcupdate.sh
250

I think the comment is still true (we still ignore generated files, and comment didn't explicitly say empty files)...

Seems ok to me. You might give a few days for other reviewers to chime in.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Feb 2 2026, 2:11 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.
delphij marked an inline comment as done.

It used to be that make distribution generated a lot of empty files and they would indeed clutter the output of etcupdate diff. Did you look at the output of etcupdate diff before and after this change? And/or did you see if there are empty files in /var/db/etcupdate/current?