Hi all!
First, I'd like to say thank you to the developers for sysupgrade(8).
As a hobbyist with limited time and energy, anything that reduces the
pain of keeping software up-to-date is always going to be a boon for
security (in the sense that I'm more likely to find the time to do an
upgrade that is relatively quick and straightforward). Between
syspatch and sysupgrade, running OpenBSD has gotten a lot easier over
the last few years, and I really appreciate it!
I have a suggestion, though: for the sake of us dabblers (who do read
the FAQs and the manual, but aren't necessarily mailing list
subscribers), I'd like to propose the following update to FAQ 4,
under the heading "File Sets". Instead of:
New users are recommended to install all of them.
I propose the following:
Installing all file sets is standard practice, even on headless
systems. Only skip a file set if you have a very good reason to
do so.
This will bring the FAQ more in-line with the tone of what I've been
reading on the mailing lists recently, and makes the target audience
of this instruction clearer (I've been using OpenBSD on and off for
nearly fifteen years, so my status as a "new" user is somewhat
ambiguous, at least in my own head). It will also help to clarify
sysupdate's behaviour (which otherwise can come as a surprise during
an operation when all surprises in particular are unwelcome).
Thanks!
Sincerely,
Russell Ault
