Hello,

I am upgrading an OpenBSD 7.0 firewall to OpenBSD 7.1. The firewall only has two packages: vim and Bind 9.16.

Before performing the upgrade on the actual hardware, I created a duplicate in VMware. The upgrade of the test VM via: sysupgrade works, as expected. I then performed a package update:

    $ doas pkg_add -uvi

Again, everything upgrades successfully, with my upgraded Bind version being 9.16.30, but the post install package notes for Bind caught my eye. When I originally installed Bind 9.16 on the firewall, I went with the GeoIP flavor. As a result, the post-package upgrade install notes that I may want to do the following:

        $ rm /var/db/GeoIP/*

...however, I noticed that the one file in this directory: GeoLite2-Country.mmdb, was upgraded during the install (based on the filesystem date and time). When the post-package upgrade notes state that I should consider deleting this, aren't I then deleting a file that was part of the upgrade ?

As a side note - pre-OpenBSD 7.1 + package upgrade, I did not store any Maxmind databases in: /var/db/GeoIP. I had not yet utilized the GeoIP functionality.

Thanks,

- J

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