Re: libcrypto oddity after upgrade - AND

From: Mark Millard <marklmi_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:15:09 UTC
On 3/16/26 17:01, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> rb@gid.co.uk writes:
>> ...this is maybe the eighth system I’ve done that on (10.x straight to
>> 14.x), and this is the first time it’s gone wrong which is why I
>> turned up here.
> 
> It shouldn't work.  You're performing the entire update using 10.x's
> copy of freebsd-update which has known bugs (inability to deal with a
> path existing in both versions but being a file in one and a directory
> in the other; inability to deal with the existence of libsys; and more)

Just one specific point, no claim of other issues  with the above wording:

To my knowledge, libsys exists just in main/ , stable/15/ , and
releng/15.0/ at this point. 10.* -> 14.* would not involve any of those.

> 
> We've never claimed to support this, either.
> 
> DES


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