Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
Most users wont read the commit log, but do will a binary package
upgrade when the next release it out; can we have a post-install message
or something that warns people of this?
Isn't post-install a little late? :-)
IIRC, I had this problem moving from 8.2 to 8.3 (when upgrading my
server from OpenBSD 4.3 to 4.4), and that happened when I was following
the upgrade guide that specifically calls out the issue in the upgrade
guide (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade44.html).
Post-install isn't actually too late, since installing is not the same
as running (which is where the problem is), but on a system with a
decent number of packages it's hard to go through the post-install
messages of EVERY upgraded package looking for problems at OS upgrade
time. I dunno what a better solution is, having it in the upgrade guide
seems like the best spot but obviously it's not perfect either.
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Matthew Weigel
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