On 3/13/22 11:06 AM, Ted Wynnychenko wrote:
Hello
I "had" been following -current since about 5.6.
Unfortunately, due to events not at all related to anything here, I was
unable to keep -current "current" for the last several months.
I would guess my last update was about 8 months ago (6.9 GENERIC.MP#131
amd64).
Now that things have stabilized for me somewhat, I was hoping to get back on
track.
My thought was to use the most recent snapshot, and then follow the 6.9->7.0
upgrade guide and then the "Following -current" guide.
That will probably work Just Fine, but ...
If you are willing to do a couple more steps, you MIGHT find it better to
go from where you are to 7.0 release, do the 7.0 steps, then from 7.0 to the
current snapshot.
Me, I'd just go all the way and clean up the mess afterwards. There's
usually not much mess. But if you have had a stressful few months, taking
the slightly safer approach might be wise.
I am just wondering if this is the "best" way to proceed?
Right now I wouldn't have the time to reinstall OpenBSD completely/from
scratch.
oh, I almost never do that, unless a machine is repurposed.
Last time I felt the NEED to do that, my 2008 vintage netbook had a 100MB root
partition (and probably no /usr/local). Well, that's not really a good idea
with modern OpenBSD. Otherwise, I think that machine had mostly stayed "just
upgraded" since I got it in 2008. (It got a bigger HD at one point, but I
think I imaged the drive over to the new drive).
Nick.
