On 2020-10-20, Aisha Tammy <openbsd.m...@aisha.cc> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering why the upgrade guide at > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade68.html > > doesn't contain more list of files to remove. > > Sysclean gives out a lot more names, but I haven't removed them yet cuz I > > trust the upgrade guide more as it is crosschecked by humans. > > But was still curious why this is much smaller than 66->67. > > > Aisha > >
The upgrade guide only lists files that are likely to cause a problem if left, not all the now-obsolete files. sysclean is pretty good; I am happy removing any files listed by sysclean | egrep '^/usr/(lib|bin|sbin|include|X11R6)' without further checking (I do not make any changes to these system directories myself). Outside of those directories I do review the list to make sure that I don't remove files I've created myself or that have been created by software from packages (sysclean is able to avoid touching files listed in packages as @sample/@extra but not other files that might be created), but this doesn't take long.
