What about the following process :

 - Install release
 - Download the release's src.tar.gz and sys.tar.gz from one of the official FTP
 - Extract those in /usr/src
 - wget all the patches listed on http://openbsd.org/errata44.html
 - Read http://openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#Patches
 - Read instructions at the head(1) of the patches.
 - Apply them all to you src tree
 - Rebuild and install stuff according to instructions given in the patches
 - Reboot

It's very straight forward and easy and I never felt the need for
binary upgrade.
Unless some big piece of code is concerned, compilation goes really
quick, and if you start from a clean src tree downloaded from the FTP,
there is no reason for it to fail.

Anyway, the FAQ does not recommend it so...

William






2008/11/28 Maurice Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thursday, November 27, 2008 at 23:56:31 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
>>I'm sorry about my ignorance, but I was reading the section 5.4 about
>>releases, and couldn't find out how to upgrade a system from a
>>release, :(.
>>
>>Maybe such upgrade is more like
>>"http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade44.html";?  But the release tree
>>needs to be downloaded, or maybe synchronized instead, maybe using
>>rsync?
>>
>>Just thinking out loud how to do upgrades to this binary repo once the
>>installation is OK....
>
> I usually do it like this:
> - download bsd.rd and copy it to /
> - reboot and type 'boot bsd.rd' at the boot> prompt
> - select upgrade
> - select ftp as location for the file sets
> - select the file sets you need
> - reboot
>
> Because you go from 4.4-release to 4.4-stable, there's no need to fiddle
> with etc44.tgz.  After the last reboot, it just works.
>
> Maurice

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