Any further thoughts on this patch to the man page?

Cheers,

--Aaron

On 2021-08-28 12:53 -0500, Aaron Poffenberger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2021-08-28 19:45 +0200, Sebastien Marie <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 05:05:18PM +0000, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 10:44:48AM -0500, Aaron Poffenberger wrote:
> > > > Based on conversations in another thread, here's a patch documenting
> > > > use of /upgrade.site in the sysupgrade(8) man page.
> > > > 
> > > > The revised doc references /upgrade.site and includes examples for
> > > > updating packages from Sebastien Marie.
> > > 
> > > Documenting is the right approach, imho (I didn't even know about
> > > $MODE.site) but this should probably be done in autoinstall(8).
> > > 
> > > This feature has nothing to do with sysupgrade per se and next to
> > > upgrade.site there's also install.site.
> > 
> > $MODE.site isn't specially related to autoinstall(8) too :)
> > 
> > > I'd amend autoinstall(8) and briefly mention it in sysupgrade(8), just
> > > via EXAMPLES or so to avoid duplication but showing a neat usecase.
> > 
> > Currently, these scripts seems to be only documented in the FAQ
> > (https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#site). so having some
> > additionnal references at them in few man pages would be good.
> > 
> > Having examples in sysupgrade(8) and in autoinstall(8) makes sense to
> > me.
> > 
> > FAQ could be expanded a bit too.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > -- 
> > Sebastien Marie
> > 
> 
> I agree that /install.site needs explaining, but I don't think it fits
> well in autoinstall(8). siteXX.tgz isn't touched on there and would have
> to be addressed as well.
> 
> I wouldn't mine working on that, but I'd prefer to put it where it belongs,
> or in a separate man page.
> 
> New diff attached. I see I put the wrong file name in the FILES section. Also,
> I simplified the example back to Sebastien Marie's original.
> 
> --Aaron
> 
> 
> Index: sysupgrade.8
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/sysupgrade/sysupgrade.8,v
> retrieving revision 1.10
> diff -u -p -r1.10 sysupgrade.8
> --- sysupgrade.8      3 Oct 2019 12:43:58 -0000       1.10
> +++ sysupgrade.8      28 Aug 2021 17:48:18 -0000
> @@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ The bootloader will automatically choose
>  triggering a one-shot upgrade using the files in
>  .Pa /home/_sysupgrade .
>  .Pp
> +If
> +.Pa /upgrade.site
> +exists and is executable, it is executed at the end of the upgrade
> +process, prior to rebooting.
> +.Pp
>  The options are as follows:
>  .Bl -tag -width Ds
>  .It Fl f
> @@ -73,16 +78,39 @@ This is the default if the system is cur
>  Response file for the ramdisk kernel.
>  .It Pa /bsd.upgrade
>  The ramdisk kernel to trigger an unattended upgrade.
> +.It Pa /upgrade.site
> +Executable file of actions to run after upgrade.
>  .It Pa /etc/installurl
>  .Ox
>  mirror top-level URL for fetching an upgrade.
>  .It Pa /home/_sysupgrade
>  Directory the upgrade is downloaded to.
>  .El
> +.Sh EXAMPLES
> +.Pa /upgrade.site
> +script to upgrade packages and check sysclean when
> +.Pa /etc/rc.firsttime
> +runs:
> +.Bd -literal
> +     #!/bin/sh
> +     PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> +
> +     # upgrade packages
> +     echo 'pkg_add -Iu' >>/etc/rc.firsttime
> +
> +     # run sysclean (if installed)
> +     echo '[ -x /usr/local/sbin/sysclean ] && \\
> +     /usr/local/sbin/sysclean | mail -Es sysclean \\
> +     root &' >>/etc/rc.firsttime
> +
> +     exit 0
> +     #
> +.Ed
>  .Sh SEE ALSO
>  .Xr signify 1 ,
>  .Xr installurl 5 ,
>  .Xr autoinstall 8 ,
> +.Xr rc 8 ,
>  .Xr release 8
>  .Sh HISTORY
>  .Nm

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