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Authored by emaste on Sep 29 2023, 3:49 PM.
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Summary
Files under /var/db/freebsd-update are required during the upgrade
process, and to support rollback.  They may be deleted if no upgrade is
in progress and rollback will not be required.

PR:             273601

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emaste created this revision.

English looks good to me.

Additionally, consider this D42022 as a fix for:

The phrase under (a directory) may be enough for readers of the manual page to understand that it's not appropriate to delete the directory itself.

bcr added a subscriber: bcr.

OK from the docs side of things.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Oct 4 2023, 2:24 PM