On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 09:57:59PM +0200, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: > 2009/7/21 Bret S. Lambert <bret.lamb...@gmail.com>: > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 09:48:20PM +0200, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: > >> 2009/7/21 Bret S. Lambert <bret.lamb...@gmail.com>: > >> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 09:36:01PM +0200, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: > >> >> 2009/7/21 Emilio Perea <epe...@walkereng.com>: > >> >> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 07:28:52PM +0200, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: > >> >> >> I have installed openbsd on a 2 gb cf card. Is there a way to update > >> >> >> my system and install all patches for my release using binaries? I > >> >> >> have no free space to recompile the system from sources, still i > >> >> >> would > >> >> >> like to do an update if necessary. > >> >> > > >> For e.g. when I just need to patch few programs I don't want to reboot > >> the whole machine. I want to minimize any downtine as much as > >> possible. > > > > Then you can burn a release on another machine as outlined in the release > > man page. > > > > If you don't have another machine of the same arch, you can NFS mount > > the source and obj dirs and build from there. > > > > It'll take a week and a day, though, to do that if you're on a slow machine, > > which I'm guessing you are, since it runs off of CF. > > > >> > > The machine has dual-core xeon cpu and 2 gb of ram so it is quite > fast. It is a small router box, so I have choose CF over regular hdd. > What I am looking for is a way to update the system as easily as with > freebsd-update of apt-get. > Unpacking archives to my / looks fine, but I was wondering if there is > an easier method.
Then follow instructions for updating to -stable and NFS mount the source and obj dirs. There's binpatch and the like, but they aren't part of base, so you'll have to contact the author(s) or hope someone here is willing to help should you run into trouble. Hell, with a bit of script-fu, you can automate the process of compiling and installing as outlined on www.openbsd.org. > > mjb > > -- > [ -----< Maciej Jan Broniarz || gau...@gausus.net >------ ] > | Siamo qui \ sotto la stessa luce \ sotto la sua croce \ | > | cantando ad una voce \ E l'Emmanuel Emmanuel, Emmanuel, | > [ ---------------< E l'Emmanuel, Emmanuel >-------------- ]
