Lars Bonnesen <lars.bonne...@gmail.com> wrote: >I like OpenBSD for it's easiness, straight forwardness and simpleness >on >daily usage. Unfortunately with the last releases, I find keeping >OpenBSD >up2date between releases to be confusing. Please help me on this one: > >Well... I have been quite happy using cvsup to keep my src and ports >up2date, but it seems that this is getting quite impossible to use >lately, >as the servers I normally use to pull from seem to block cvsup. )-: > >Then I read that cvsync seem to be the way to go... although I can't >get it >to work proberly. > >I follow http://www.openbsd.org/cvsync.html and I am able to pull a >repository (size 5.2G) > >Then I am going to pull the patch branch (well using cvsup, I normally >go >for current), and I do: > ># cd /usr ># cvs -d/cvs checkout -P src
Yes that gives you -current. Did you install a snapshot first? Did you read current.html? > >It works... I am getting what looks to be update source files. I find >the >changes of >http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/5.4/common/002_sshgcm.patch >in >monitor_wrap.c > >Then I going to compile from source (system is i386) by doing: > ># cd /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf # config GENERIC # cd >../compile/GENERIC # >make clean && make # make install > >Well... it looks to be going fine... not noticing any errors at least, >and >I can find the new kernel /bsd. But... > >Rebooting... and the system ends in limbo-mode. Thanks for the detailed explanation. > >I have to boot doing "b /obsd" > >I can't figure out where the process goes wrong. Anyone? Your kernel was compiled with "option LIMBO" set, maybe? Provide more details. /Alexander > >Regards, Lars.
