Well, I've never cared much for the holidays... So I figured, while everybody else was busy with them, what a perfect time for me to take down my BBS and other services and upgrade the system at least from 5.4-5.5. I've done multiple upgrades in a day before when I've gotten behind like this, and they've never been much of a problem, though I've run into an issue here and there before.
That was before I ran into the removal of packages and reinstallation process that is necessary for this upgrade. Right off the bat I got issues about 'Can't locate object method "filter_obsolete" via package "OpenBSD::Quirks1" at /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/AddDelete.pm line 351"'. This was at the 'final step', and there had been no hiccups during the sysmerging process that I wasn't used to. After this issue, I started having packages that the system was trying to reinstall but totally horked on. I'm not totally sure if this is comprehensive at this point, but here are the packages and what I had to do with them: * apcupsd - had to manually remove from pkg_list_manual * cups - ditto * fedora-base - ditto * ntop - ditto * hylafax & smsmail or whatever - ditto I then ran into a bunch that I had to install unsigned, finally just hitting the 'a'll so as to stop having to manually intervene and say 'y'es on each one. These started with metaauto*, autoconf-2.69p0*, bash-4.2.45, beave, and then I lost track of the rest with the 'a'll install specified. My system won't run like 90% of the binaries on it. I have upgrades of my home directory, BBS directory, and SQL dumps of most everything except my most recent changes, but I'm really hoping to avoid that... Does anybody have any tips? Would an install over the top straight to 5.6 maybe work? I've never had the install process leave me with such a lobotomized system before. Usually it's just something like mediawiki not working with latex math markup any more or wordpress breaking. :( This is my primary server, and it pains me significantly to have it down, and I really love OpenBSD, despite the hiccups at times. Does anybody have any suggestions? Any help or pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
