[brynet]

Because perl is part of the base system, and not a package, harmless files are typically not removed by the OpenBSD Installer.

You don't have to remove those files, the upgrade guide simply indicates they're no longer required.

[ernst_klim]

Sure, but manual upgrades with `tar'ring userspace, copying kernel and removing files seems abysmally error-prone to me.

[brynet]

You're reading the manual upgrade guide, for remote systems where you would otherwise cannot boot the ramdisk kernel to upgrade, which handles all of that for you.

If you have console access to the machine, serial or glass. Things are far easier.

[tedunangst]

More evidence the hard way instructions should simply be deleted.

[smhenderson]

Don't let one guy ruin it for the rest of us!

Thanks for your work on OpenBSD Ted.

[protomyth]

I would move them to a separate page and not delete them. Sometimes you need to know something about dealing with the ugly. Nice work and your blog is great.

[eb0la]

In the past problems could happen if your kernel ended beyond cylinder 1024 on the disk (i386 problem)

You should have a disklabel with partitioning for at least /, /usr, /usr/lib, /var, and /home (with / fully behind cylinder 1024 for i386 Bios to be able to load the kernel via int13h )

[bigato]

> harmless files are typically not removed by the OpenBSD Installer

I also don't understand the reasoning behind this.

[aquabeagle]

It's your system, the installer doesn't know what you're doing with it. Maybe you have your own programs depending on those files?

[asark]

On the one hand, cruft hanging around sucks. On the other hand, leaving stuff alone if you can is safer.

Meanwhile dist-upgrade on my vanilla, boring Ubuntu MATE box rendered it unbootable just yesterday.