Re: Hundreds of prompts to remove files during upgrade

From: Mark Tinka <mark_at_tinka.africa>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2021 14:04:50 UTC

On 10/8/21 13:45, Arthur Chance wrote:

> I usually use freebsd-update in a sudo -s shell and have never had
> prompts to remove system files like the OP had.
>
> Unfortunately I can't talk from experience about the 12.2 -> 13.0
> upgrade as I did a complete wipe and reinstall so I could switch from
> BIOS to UEFI booting. However I can say the files that were going to be
> removed do exist under 13.0:
>
> arthur@arthur[1]> ls /etc/pam.d
> atrun   ftp     imap    other   pop3    sshd    system  xdm
> cron    ftpd    login   passwd  README  su      telnetd

I've done several upgrades using "freebsd-update" from 12.2 to 13.0, and 
even from as far back as 11.2 to 13.0. No issues at all with the prompts.

Mark.