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There comes a time in a man's life to follow -current...
![]() First things first. A few notes: - I have no custom kernel. - I made a clean installation from the previous -current snapshot. - I installed the ports tree that came with the snapshot (same date). The steps I followed: - booted from cd (newest -current) and followed instructions for update. - rebooted. - as root, I did the following (ftp is just a matter of preference): Code:
sysmerge -s ftp://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386/etc49.tgz -x ftp://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386//xetc49.tgz - updated ports with Code:
cd /usr/ cvs -qd anoncvs@anoncvs.ca.openbsd.org:/cvs get -P ports Code:
pkg_add -u So far, the system's looking nice and smooth. All files are there. I'm just asking because with no previous experience on this, I need to know if the steps I followed were correct. Thank you. ![]() |
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Thank you very much rocket357.
![]() And a last question about current. Let's say that the next snapshot is in 4 days and the after that in 8. If I miss the first, am I able to proceed to update with the second without messing things up? |
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Resurrecting the thread with a question about -current.
So far, I'm updating with bsd.rd and the laptop still survives. ![]() Now, with the 5.0 release, I'm somehow confused with the sysmerge utility (even if now it's automated at the end of each update). Let's say that I want to update from 4.9 -current to 5.0 and I choose to manually sysmerge /etc. Im going to give Code:
sysmerge -s ftp://ftp.address/arch/etc50.tgz -x ftp://ftp.address/arch/xetc50.tgz I read sysmerge man page, but I cannot understand completely the comparison. It compares the new /etc against the old one. But why do we need to specify two etc (etc/xetc) paths? Perhaps a noob question, but I feel the urge to learn that... |
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Allow me to add, on my -current build machine, since I maintain from source, I just use this command:
# sysmerge The default is to use /usr/src rather than fileset(s). I also build a release(8), for installation on other platforms, and there i use -s and -x. |
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For those coming to this thread later, Daffy is currently referring to 5.0-beta. OpenBSD 5.0-release will not be officially available until 1 November 2011 as currently scheduled. The OpenBSD project attempts to release new public releases every May & November as mentioned in Section 1.7 of the FAQ.
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