* Jason Dixon <[email protected]> [2009-07-21 23:06]:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 03:36:54PM -0500, Matthew Weigel wrote:
> > Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> >
> >> Most users wont read the commit log, but do will a binary package  
> >> upgrade when the next release it out; can we have a post-install 
> >> message or something that warns people of this?
> >
> > Isn't post-install a little late? :-)
> >
> > IIRC, I had this problem moving from 8.2 to 8.3 (when upgrading my  
> > server from OpenBSD 4.3 to 4.4), and that happened when I was following  
> > the upgrade guide that specifically calls out the issue in the upgrade  
> > guide (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade44.html).
> >
> > Post-install isn't actually too late, since installing is not the same  
> > as running (which is where the problem is), but on a system with a  
> > decent number of packages it's hard to go through the post-install  
> > messages of EVERY upgraded package looking for problems at OS upgrade  
> > time.  I dunno what a better solution is, having it in the upgrade guide  
> > seems like the best spot but obviously it's not perfect either.
> 
> Reasonable solution (examples):
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=120637961514930&w=2
> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=120631560919405&w=2
> http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20080324162049
> 
> Expect an Undeadly story soonish.

the upgrade47.html entry is the most important really.

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