On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Corey <clinge...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/21/2011 06:46 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> >> On 2011-12-21, Corey<clinge...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 12/20/2011 11:16 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Then afterwards, can I check out the -current branch from CVS as >>>>> I do with -stable? i.e. # cvs -d$CVSROOT checkout -P src >>>>> Or am I not supposed to fetch& build -current at all? Would it >>>> >>>> You can checkout src if you want, but you don't have to, >>>> you can just install the binary sets just as you would for a release >>>> >>>>> be safer to just download the /snapshots/i386/install50.iso every >>>>> couple weeks and do a fresh install every time? I guess I will >>>> >>>> There's really no need for fresh installs, upgrades work very well >>>> >>>> No need for install*.iso either, just download a new bsd.rd and >>>> boot that from the boot loader (boot /bsd.rd) and do a network >>>> upgrade install >>>> >>> Out of curiosity, is this more efficient and/or less loading on the >>> servers than downloading the iso (assuming one installs all sets)? >> >> Doesn't make a lot of difference server-side but I know it's a lot >> easier for me to boot a different kernel and point it at a (possibly >> locally mirrored or pre-downloaded) set of files than it is to >> download an iso, burn a cd and boot from it - I imagine this is >> the case for most people. >> > > Ah...ok. I'm usually following -current on only one or two machines, so I > never really thought of setting up a local mirror (though there may be other > advantages to doing that). How do you keep your local file mirror in sync > with newer kernels/snapshots? Or do you do the local repo and the kernel > somewhat independently, and just try new kernels (and read release notes) > and see if stuff breaks? > > C >
Hi there, I just wanted to chime in with an alternate perspective. I've been running snapshots for two or three years now. Here's my procedure: 1. download installXX.iso 2. mount installXX.iso (http://openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#MountImage) 3. cp /mnt/5.0/i386/bsd.rd / 4. cp -R /mnt/5.0 / 5. reboot 6. boot> boot bsd.rd 7. Upgrade For "Location of sets?" type "disk" For "Is the disk partition already mounted?" say "yes" 8. After reboot use sysmerge and pkg_add -ui This works very nicely for me. I came across this method two or three years ago when I got tired of burning CDs. Also, I pay attention to when the latest snapshot packages were built, and try to pick a snapshot close to that date. BTW, this works for release->release, release->snapshot, snapshot->snapshot, I even successfully went from i386 to amd64 once, but I guarantee that is an unsupported move... haven't had the huevos to try it yet, but I think I could even get away skipping a release (eg. 4.8->5.0). If you use sysmerge and pay attention to the upgrade instructions (http://openbsd.org/faq/upgrade50.html) life is good. sysmerge kicks some serious ass.. -Barry
