On 2025 May 02 (Fri) at 11:53:19 +0200 (+0200), Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
:On Fri, 02 May 2025 11:28:47 +0200,
:Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
:> 
:> On 2025/05/01 21:56, Josh Grosse wrote:
:> > For consideration.
:> 
:> > diff --git usr.sbin/pkg_add/pkg_add.1 usr.sbin/pkg_add/pkg_add.1
:> > index 67be4b80179..17b3fc12687 100644
:> > --- usr.sbin/pkg_add/pkg_add.1
:> > +++ usr.sbin/pkg_add/pkg_add.1
:> > @@ -109,7 +109,9 @@ with
:> >  .Fl u
:> >  whenever possible, but
:> >  .Fl U
:> > -can be much faster.
:> > +can be much faster, and is intended for use when running -current, if
:> > +a new package needs to be added without conducting a full update of all
:> > +packages.
:> >  .It
:> >  Replace existing packages with explicit other versions, using option
:> >  .Fl r .
:> 
:> -U is a bit of a hack and I think mostly useful for ports developers.
:> 
:> Diff below gives a better reason *not* to use it.
:> 
:> Perhaps pkg_add should reject -Uu, afaict it is meaningless, and there
:> is some meme which won't go away about running -Uu for updates.
:> 
:> Bonus -u -> .Fl u fix.
:>
:
:Cleaner wording, indeed!
:
:Meanwhile, I was able to backtrace the source why so many people uses -U. I
:don't belive that all of them read man page and decided to speedup things.
:
:Long story short: I almost sure that the root cause this page:
:https://www.openbsdhandbook.com/upgrade/
:

Their sysmerge recommendation is also broken, and the OS install section
is suspect.  The networking section is also bad, most especially the
Wireless section.

Yuck, I hope this site gets fixed.


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