On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:12:52PM -0600, Adam Thompson wrote: > I just upgraded one of a matched pair of 5.5 systems to 5.6, and after the > upgrade finished, it occured to me to wonder "what about the > binpatch55-amd64-* packages from m:tier"? > > They're all still installed (unsurprisingly), and I'm uncertain what to do > about it now. I'm thinking that if I uninstall the packages normally, > they'll revert certain system files to 5.5-RELEASE, which would be > undesirable.
Hi Adam. > So I now have two cases: > 1) for a post-5.6-upgraded system, should I just manually remove > /var/db/pkg/binpatch55* and /var/db/binpatch/*, or is there a better way to > handle this? If you use openup, then you can just run it. If not, then yes, you must manually remove these directories. > 2) for the not-yet-upgraded system, should I remove the patches normally, > reverting to 5.5-RELEASE, or ... ? Yes. It's a known drawback of the binpatch-ng framework. -- Antoine
