On 08/13/2013 08:33 AM, Stefan Wollny wrote:
Hi there,I usually follow -current installing snapshots as soon as they become available. Being just an ordinary though happy user I know OpenBSD is not for the mindless and carefully check and read (and at least try to understand) what is written on the wall on openbsd.org/faq/current. The latest entry and advice on the ABI break catched my attention: The first step is to save the info on the packages installed - but: Is saving this info in /root a good idea when doing a fresh install? Wouldn't /home/{user}/ be more advisable as /home should be on a seperate partition not to be touched when mindfully doing a fresh install as implicitly advised in step 3? Just curious if I understood the advice - I do know how to do it.
IF you are doing a FRESH INSTALL, then yes, you want to put the package list "elsewhere" other than /root. Probably on another machine.
But I think you misunderstand -- the primary thrust of the article is for UPGRADING an existing system. If you are completely rebuilding from scratch, you don't have much to worry about (except, perhaps, blindly restoring binary or password files from backup!). I don't see the "implicit advice" to do a fresh install of the entire system over an upgrade.
Nick.
