Thanks; that's straightforward and refreshingly more direct than I thought. A
hallmark of OpenBSD!
* *
http://milam.homeunix.net
--- On Sun, 11/2/08, Tobias Ulmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Tobias Ulmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Perpetually Current
To: &qu
On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 01:39:04PM -0800, Doug Milam wrote:
> I'm also fairly new to OpenBSD. As I understand from this thread, having
> installed -current (4.4) from a snapshot CD, the easiest way to keep -current
> is to burn a subsequent snapshot to a CD and follow the upgrade process from
> the
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Doug Milam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm also fairly new to OpenBSD. As I understand from this thread, having
> installed -current (4.4) from a snapshot CD, the easiest way to keep -current
> is to burn a subsequent snapshot to a CD and follow the upgrade process
I'm also fairly new to OpenBSD. As I understand from this thread, having
installed -current (4.4) from a snapshot CD, the easiest way to keep -current
is to burn a subsequent snapshot to a CD and follow the upgrade process from
there?
On Jan 2, 2008 4:57 PM, Ingo Schwarze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Matheus,
>
> Nenhum_de_Nos wrote on Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 01:42:01PM -0300:
>
> > my OBSD routers are usually old PII boxes
> > and doing this kind of upgrade on them is not trivial.
>
> Saying "this kind of upgrade", you refer to
Hi Matheus,
Nenhum_de_Nos wrote on Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 01:42:01PM -0300:
> my OBSD routers are usually old PII boxes
> and doing this kind of upgrade on them is not trivial.
Saying "this kind of upgrade", you refer to the official upgrade
process, i presume?
The official upgrade process is com
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:40:40PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> There has to be a way without CD. Can't you put the 4.2 rd kernel on
> the root filesystem and boot that then run the installer, pulling the
> install sets via ftp? I suppose for remote units you need some sort of
> remote shell
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 01:42:01PM -0300, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
> On Dec 27, 2007 11:17 AM, new_guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I would like to install OpenBSD *once* and keep it patched and secured for
> > many years there after (5 - 7 years) in a production environment. Would it
> > be feasible
* Nenhum_de_Nos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-02 17:49]:
> On Dec 27, 2007 11:17 AM, new_guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I would like to install OpenBSD *once* and keep it patched and secured for
> > many years there after (5 - 7 years) in a production environment. Would it
> > be feasible to get
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 01:42:01PM -0300, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
> I have quite the same problem. my OBSD routers are usually old PII
> boxes and doing this kind of upgrade on them is not trivial. other, I
> have some remote routers I cant do this, so They run FBSD. I'd rather
> use OBSD on my router
On Dec 27, 2007 11:17 AM, new_guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to install OpenBSD *once* and keep it patched and secured for
> many years there after (5 - 7 years) in a production environment. Would it
> be feasible to get a snapshot today and follow -current for many years w/o
> havin
>I would like to install OpenBSD *once* and keep it patched and secured for
>many years there after (5 - 7 years) in a production environment. Would it
>be feasible to get a snapshot today and follow -current for many years w/o
>having to reinstall? Basically, this approach would skip -stable and
>
On Dec 28, 2007 4:07 AM, Ingo Schwarze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> Keeping a system up to date involves manual work,
> either a little easy work for manual upgrades now and then,
> or lots of hard and scary work for building and maintaining
> an automatic system. You choose according to you
Karsten McMinn wrote on Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:21:54AM -0800:
> obviously automation. regardless of personal administration ethics
> it seems like a fair question.
If you understand the OP's question that way, you should also provide
the following answer to the OP: There is no standard way for
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:21:54AM -0800, Karsten McMinn wrote:
> On Dec 27, 2007 10:47 AM, Jan Stary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > That's about one hour of work twice a year - what's wrong with that? Why
> > do you want to stay -current? What problem are you trying to solve, or
> > what are you t
On Dec 27, 2007 10:47 AM, Jan Stary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> That's about one hour of work twice a year - what's wrong with that? Why
> do you want to stay -current? What problem are you trying to solve, or
> what are you trying to achieve by doing that?
obviously automation. regardless of p
On Dec 27, 2007 8:35 AM, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * STeve Andre' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-27 17:31]:
> > Thats my point: running -current means building from source and
> > thus being affected.
>
> huh?
> not at all.
> you use snapshots of course.
STeve understands that but
On Dec 27 06:17:37, new_guy wrote:
> I would like to install OpenBSD *once* and keep it patched and secured
> for many years there after (5 - 7 years) in a production environment.
That's what upgrades are for.
> Would it be feasible to get a snapshot today and follow -current for
> many years w/o
* STeve Andre' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-27 17:31]:
> Thats my point: running -current means building from source and
> thus being affected.
huh?
not at all.
you use snapshots of course.
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On Thursday 27 December 2007 10:46:26 Henning Brauer wrote:
> * STeve Andre' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-27 16:42]:
> > On Thursday 27 December 2007 10:07:00 Henning Brauer wrote:
> > > * STeve Andre' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-27 15:43]:
> > > > On Thursday 27 December 2007 09:17:37 new_guy wro
* STeve Andre' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-27 16:42]:
> On Thursday 27 December 2007 10:07:00 Henning Brauer wrote:
> > * STeve Andre' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-27 15:43]:
> > > On Thursday 27 December 2007 09:17:37 new_guy wrote:
> > > > I would like to install OpenBSD *once* and keep it patch
On 12/27/07, new_guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to install OpenBSD *once* and keep it patched and secured for
> many years there after (5 - 7 years) in a production environment. Would it
> be feasible to get a snapshot today and follow -current for many years w/o
> having to reinstal
On Thursday 27 December 2007 10:07:00 Henning Brauer wrote:
> * STeve Andre' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-27 15:43]:
> > On Thursday 27 December 2007 09:17:37 new_guy wrote:
> > > I would like to install OpenBSD *once* and keep it patched and secured
> > > for many years there after (5 - 7 years) i
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:07:00PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote:
> > The second problem are flag days, when something has changed such
> > that you almost certainly want to reinstall the OS. The move from
> > a.out to ELF binary format is a good example of that.
>
> ah yeah, and that happens every
* STeve Andre' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-27 15:43]:
> On Thursday 27 December 2007 09:17:37 new_guy wrote:
> > I would like to install OpenBSD *once* and keep it patched and secured for
> > many years there after (5 - 7 years) in a production environment. Would it
> > be feasible to get a snapsh
On Thursday 27 December 2007 09:17:37 new_guy wrote:
> I would like to install OpenBSD *once* and keep it patched and secured for
> many years there after (5 - 7 years) in a production environment. Would it
> be feasible to get a snapshot today and follow -current for many years w/o
> having to rei
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