On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 03:36:54PM -0500, Matthew Weigel wrote: > 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.
Reasonable solution (examples): http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=120637961514930&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=120631560919405&w=2 http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20080324162049 Expect an Undeadly story soonish. -- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net/
