In article <p05210600bc83d07474da@[209.46.8.69]> you write:
>/etc/postinstall does almost nothing unless /usr/src is present and populated.
>I went through by hand and removed the obsolete files.

I'm not sure about 1.6.2, but in the -current upgrades I just did,
postinstall was useful as long as you remembered to run the new one, so:

Unpack etc.tgz somewhere (say /usr/INSTALL), then
# /usr/INSTALL/etc/postinstall -s /usr/INSTALL fix

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@NetBSD.org>
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