On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 03:19:38AM +1000, Sunnz wrote: > May I ask 'other' upgrade questions? > > This is concerned with -current. > > 1, How does the naming works? Is the current -current tree named as > 4.1-current? I downloaded the snapshots of -current off ftp mirror, > and they are all 41: cd41.iso, etc41.tgz, etc... will they become > cd42.iso and 4.2-current when 4.1-release comes out?
The current -current is named 4.1-current, and will be named 4.2-beta, 4.2 (for a short time), 4.2-current, 4.3-beta, 4.3, ... - assuming nothing changes in between, of course. > 2, How _shall_ I do an upgrade from one -current snapshot to a newer > one -current snapshot? Do I need to download the newer -current > cd41.iso and to the upgrade, or can I just download the *41.tgz files > and extract them in / ? Extracting the tarballs will work, but do keep an eye on http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html. > 3, What about -current packages? I can make sure that the ports tree > is in sync with the system with relative ease, but the -current > packages are constantly changing right? Yes, but if you keep reasonably up to date, just using the provided packages usually works just fine (right now is one example of a case where it doesn't - we have a new X version). Joachim
