Re: New user trying to plan for upgrade

2009-12-22 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
What is wrong with /var/backups ? I like tp have all those config files, ALL and in one place. L. V. Lammert wrote: On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Paul M wrote: On 22/12/2009, at 2:23 PM, David Shuman wrote: It appears there are issues and processes that require the maintenance of config files

Re: New user trying to plan for upgrade

2009-12-22 Thread Brad Tilley
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:43 -0500, "David Shuman" wrote: > Thanks to all as an inexperienced user in the process, my choice in this > area was more of self-protection should I mishandle the upgrade process > at some point in time. It's nice to see so many indicate I am probably > being overly pr

Re: New user trying to plan for upgrade

2009-12-22 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Paul M wrote: > On 22/12/2009, at 2:23 PM, David Shuman wrote: > > > It appears there are issues and processes that require > > the maintenance of config files and the like after an > > upgrade of OpenBSD. > I prefer to merge directories with mc - allows visual comparison of i

Re: New user trying to plan for upgrade

2009-12-22 Thread Tomas Bodzar
It's OpenBSD. As I test/use more then one OS I can confirm that only problematic part on OpenBSD is user not system :-) Can't say same about other OS's. They are missing http://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2009-release_engineering/ On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 2:43 PM, David Shuman wrote: > Thanks

Re: New user trying to plan for upgrade

2009-12-22 Thread David Shuman
Thanks to all as an inexperienced user in the process, my choice in this area was more of self-protection should I mishandle the upgrade process at some point in time. It's nice to see so many indicate I am probably being overly protective. Tomas Bodzar wrote: With snapshots I follow this li

Re: New user trying to plan for upgrade

2009-12-21 Thread Tomas Bodzar
With snapshots I follow this line : 1) download latest bsd.rd and place it in / 2) reboot and boot from bsd.rd 3) choose (U)pgrade 4) after upgrade reboot 5) # sysmerge -s your_favorite_mirror/etcXX.tgz -x your_favorite_mirror/xetcXX.tgz 6) sometimes reboot sometimes no change so no reboot 7

Re: New user trying to plan for upgrade

2009-12-21 Thread Paul M
On 22/12/2009, at 2:23 PM, David Shuman wrote: It appears there are issues and processes that require the maintenance of config files and the like after an upgrade of OpenBSD. As I am relatively new to this process I intend to create two directories in my home directory to keep copies of all my

Re: New user trying to plan for upgrade

2009-12-21 Thread Chris Bennett
David Shuman wrote: It appears there are issues and processes that require the maintenance of config files and the like after an upgrade of OpenBSD. As I am relatively new to this process I intend to create two directories in my home directory to keep copies of all my alterations to OpenBSD.

New user trying to plan for upgrade

2009-12-21 Thread David Shuman
It appears there are issues and processes that require the maintenance of config files and the like after an upgrade of OpenBSD. As I am relatively new to this process I intend to create two directories in my home directory to keep copies of all my alterations to OpenBSD. I hope these will assis