Stuart Henderson <st...@openbsd.org> wrote: > On 2014/11/09 22:08, Job Snijders wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 01:36:59PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > >I just updated to OpenBSD 5.6 and I was happy to see that rcp, rsh, > > > >rshd, rwho, rwhod, etc have been removed (at least according to the > > > >Changelog). However, the upgrade instructions fail to mention that files > > > >like /etc/rc.d/rwhod or /usr/bin/rwho should be removed. > > > > > > How much of a catastrophy is this? > > > > > > Question for the community: Do you want the upgrade instructions to > > > be 100% useful, or 100% complete? > > > > 100% complete should be the goal. > > > > I expect a system that is upgraded from 5.5 to 5.6 (following the > > upgrade documentation) to be in the _exact_ same state as a clean 5.6 > > installation, barring changes local to the system. > > I disagree. Consider the case of default MTA or default web server. > I expect the upgrade instructions to show me how to upgrade the system > keeping it running as before as much as possible. > > If I wanted it to work how it does on a clean install, I'd just do a > clean install...
The old binaries won't run on the new kernel anyway. When the default has been changed but the old default remains, the upgrade instructions should say so and say what to do to change the default. You can continue running the old default if you want. When the old software has been removed completely, the old binaries are useless anyway. The instructions should be complete, but nobody should ever run who on a 5.6 system. Therefore you could claim running rwho is undefined, so it doesn't matter whether it still exists or not. Maybe this isn't such a good idea if /usr/bin comes before /usr/local/bin in your path. -- Martin Brandenburg
