On 2014/11/09 22:08, Job Snijders wrote: > On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 01:36:59PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > >I just updated to OpenBSD 5.6 and I was happy to see that rcp, rsh, > > >rshd, rwho, rwhod, etc have been removed (at least according to the > > >Changelog). However, the upgrade instructions fail to mention that files > > >like /etc/rc.d/rwhod or /usr/bin/rwho should be removed. > > > > How much of a catastrophy is this? > > > > Question for the community: Do you want the upgrade instructions to > > be 100% useful, or 100% complete? > > 100% complete should be the goal. > > I expect a system that is upgraded from 5.5 to 5.6 (following the > upgrade documentation) to be in the _exact_ same state as a clean 5.6 > installation, barring changes local to the system.
I disagree. Consider the case of default MTA or default web server. I expect the upgrade instructions to show me how to upgrade the system keeping it running as before as much as possible. If I wanted it to work how it does on a clean install, I'd just do a clean install...
