-----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Stephan A. Rickauer > Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 9:57 AM > Cc: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: Lifecycle question [Not again!] > > Ladies, > > some of you may remember the life cycle questions I had asked to this > list a few months ago. In that time people partly felt offended by my > questions related to OpenBSD's six month cycle compared to long life > cycles supported by vendors like Novell and Redhat (for linux, at least). > > But, a few of you took the time and tried to explain to me how easy, > smooth and consistent an OS upgrade with OpenBSD would be (instead of > flaming) and why security is always related to progress etc. I am very > grateful for that. > > Since pure theory is never convincing for me, I now took the chance and > upgrade 3.7 to 3.8 on my carp firewall setup. And all I wanted to tell > you here is that you all were right: It is not just smooth, consistent > and easy - it's really fun! The entire upgrade took me less than an hour > without one microsecond of down time. Cool. > > Thanks again, > > -- > > Stephan A. Rickauer >
Any details? Binary upgrade using install discs? Any trouble merging files? I assume you didn't have any packages installed?
