Kyrylo Klimakov wrote: ...[snip the same ol' libexpat stuff]... > I think that such behavior of the installer could be treated like a > bug and package > xbase42 should be moved to required section or at least in the > installation documents > should be described such trouble. > > What do you think about?
I think you should read the instructions that were scattered everywhere we could think to put them: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade42.html#libexpat http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade42.html#Pkgup http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq1.html#WhatsNew http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#NoFun http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#FilesNeeded The last one is a bit weak, but I think you will find the rest are making it pretty clear that this has been recognized as a major problem and will be fixed for the next release (and, in fact, has long been so: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html). So, ignoring things that can't be changed, the release documentation that is already on the CD and in the release, where do you wish us to make these changes? Original plan was to chop up the developers responsible for this, tattoo a note about it on each piece and mail the bits to people who bought the CD sets, but the postal service objected to this. There was also some question about the long term impact on the sales of CDs, so plastering it all over the website was considered a reasonable alternative. ;) (Slightly more seriously: Theo himself charged me with making sure this was plastered all over the things people would be looking at, and told me to make it clear it was an error, and would be fixed for the next release. upgrade43.html will include a bit about removing xbase42.tgz if you had to install it for 4.2) Nick.
