> 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.
>
