Hi,
Sime Ramov wrote on Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 12:04:41AM +0100:
> * Antoine Jacoutot <ajacou...@bsdfrog.org> [2011-12-03 23:12+0100]:
>> You cannot select etc.tgz and xetc.tgz when upgrading.
> Ah, missed that. I usually do a full install on desktops so I don't pay
> much attention to file sets.
That sounds strange, especially on desktops; after reinstall, you
have to install all packages from scratch, and desktops typically
need lots of packages.
> Shouldn't then net result be effectively the same whether one runs
> `sysmerge` before or after upgrade?
I see at least two reasons for the right order:
(1) The upgrade may upgrade the sysmerge(8) program itself,
and you want to run the new version, not the old one.
(2) Often, running new programs with old configuration works
more or less because some software maintainers provide
some backward compatibility, whereas running old programs
with new configuration often breaks rather badly.
Yours,
Ingo
