On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Uwe Dippel <udippel@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Still, may I suggest, that the next Upgrade Guide gets an extra line, with a
> remark pointing out the existence of /usr/obj; and the suggestion to clean it?

Please point to the part of the Upgrade Guide which talks about
building from source, untarring the src tar file, or applying errata.
I can't seem to find any such reference, but I'm sure it's in there
somewhere, because you originally said that you did the upgrade
exactly following the upgrade guide and, as we found out later, your
steps included building from source.

The other possibility is that you did stuff that was *not* in the
upgrade guide, in which case adding text to the upgrade guide saying
"if you do this other stuff that's described elsewhere then you should
read those other directions and follow them completely" seems kinda
bizarre.


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> Also, with respect to the 'errata', the patches, they describe in detail what
> needs to be done. Maybe here, it could as well be suggested, that before
> applying the first patch of a new version of OpenBSD, /usr/obj should be
> cleaned, or be verified to be clean?

It already is the first bullet in the directions for building userland
from source:
    http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BldUserland


Philip Guenther