Matthias Kilian wrote:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 02:22:46PM -0400, Peter Fraser wrote:
I use an approach to upgrading that I have not seen written
anywhere. It does need additional space in the root partition
but with disks these days that is not normally a problem.
[...]
I really don't see any benefit compared to the normal procedure
(i.e. boot from one of the install media, enter u as in Upgrade,
and proceed).
And for /etc, just follow the upgrade FAQ or extract etcXX.tgz and
xetcXX.tgz to some temporary place and use mergemaster(8) (available
as package or from the ports tree) to merge them in.
exactly. the only reason i can see for doing this that you cited, peter,
is that you don't have extra libraries, etc, hanging around from earlier
versions. this will save some negligible amount of space, taking
exception to some architectures where disk space doesn't come so easy.
then again that's what NFS is for, no?
if one were using this as a "space saving mechanism" it is
self-defeating because of the need for a large / partition. this makes a
bit of sense if done using NFS for the / partition but adds a fair deal
of complexity for little gain. most ppl who have these older machines
that have been upgraded since the nineties know openbsd-fu well enough
to pick out the libraries,etc, they don't need.
cheers,
jake
Ciao,
Kili
