On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 04:39:11PM +0100, Stefan Wollny wrote: > Hi there, reading the upgrade-guide 5.5 to 5.6 > on http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade56.html I came across an issue with > sysmerge options: The guide advises to run sysmerge like so:sysmerge -s > ${RELEASEPATH}/etc56.tgz -x ${RELEASEPATH}/xetc56.tgz I have the > *tgz-files in the folder ~/Downloads/amd64/. I have cd'ed there and > runsysmerge > -s etc56.tgz -x xetc56.tgz What I get is the following > comment:/usr/sbin/sysmerge[612]: > -s: unknown optionusage: sysmerge [-bdp] man sysmerge tells me > (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man8/sysmerge.8?query=sysmerge)SYNOPSIS > sysmerge > [-bdp] Question:Is my system outdated or should the FAQ get a review? > Cheers,STEFAN
Looks like you are running a current sysmerge. Likely you did not upgrade to 5.6-release, but 5.6-current, using a snapshot. -Otto