On 24/12/19 9:16 pm, Dumitru Moldovan wrote: > Maybe it would be worth mentioning in the FAQ? I could only find it > here: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade63.html, but then it was not > mentioned for newer releases. > > Another remedy is to follow the `Files to remove` section in the FAQ, > e.g. for 6.6: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade66.html#RmFiles. The > FAQ article for the 6.3 upgrade suggests sysclean does that too. This > seems to be a byproduct of the design, meaning it doesn't specifically > remove those files, but it should remove them, as long as all installed > packages are updated and no longer need them. But this is just my > reading of the sysclean man page.
Yeah I had done that… actually for another router VM I had to do a very brutal equivalent of it when it ran out of disk space mid-update in the installer… I basically blew away /usr/* (minus directories that are on different partitions like 'local') figuring it'd re-instate the files when it unpacked the newer file sets. This lead to some missing files in /usr/share/relink but I was able to re-instate those from another 6.6 VM that did update cleanly (ironically, the very one that prompted this discussion). So far, both have now run `syspatch`, and I've got kernel re-linking working on both now. We shall see. Both VMs should probably be re-built from scratch as a matter of sanity, but I can do that at leisure now, what I have, works. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
