> rather quickly that you're not the stupid idiot that needs to spam misc@
> with boring questions like this.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 02:00:32PM +0100, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> > I want to upgrade from 4.0 to 4.2 and I see I am supposed to perform 4.0->4.1
> > first. But some things are unclear to me in
> >
http://openbsd.org/faq/upgrade41.html:
> >
> > "Pay special attention to mail/* if you are using something other than the
> > default Sendmail(8) configuration." - I use Exim so I should do this. What
> > specifically is meant with "pay special attention"?
> >
> > "Files that must be manually merged, respecting any local changes made to them,
> > if they were modified from the default, otherwise, just copy them over, too:"
> >
> > How do I figure out what local changes I did? Is there something like the cvs
> > diff command? I have the system over a year and if I needed to change something
> > in the config files then I just changed it and forgot it.
> >
> > "If you installed any packages on your system, you should upgrade them after
> > completing the upgrade of the base system." - I installed a lot of packages on
> > my system and have no idea what is their complete list. How do I figure that
> > out and how do I discern between packages that were already pre-installed by
> > default and the ones I installed explicitly? Then, how do I upgrade a package
> > XXX?
> >
> > "Check with the application's upgrade guide for details." - is the application
> > upgrade guide something the application author publishes or something that the
> > OpenBSD project publishes? Where is it?
> >
> > Thanks for clarifications,
> >
> > CL<
