Is it possible to follow -current after missing several versions?

2017-01-03 Thread Panagiotis Liakos
Hello all, I have an old installation of OpenBSD that is following -current and I had successfully done so going from 5.5 to 5.6 a long time ago. Today I tried to follow -current again and I stepped into several issues. At first, kernel build failed and I found out that as of 2015-09-11 I have to

Re: Is it possible to follow -current after missing several versions?

2017-01-03 Thread Panagiotis Liakos
2017-01-03 19:07 GMT+02:00 Theo de Raadt : > > Upgrade with a snapshot. > > You don't stand a chance figuring out what we changed and making your way > through it. Do you mean that I can simply boot with a fresh bsd.rd and upgrade my system? Thank you both for your answers.

Re: Is it possible to follow -current after missing several versions?

2017-01-04 Thread Panagiotis Liakos
I managed to go to 5.7, I stopped there because I am now able to install packages, and I will probably go to 6.0 later on. After running sysmerge I was advised to "Leave for later" various changes. Can someone point me to a guide on how to deal with these changes? Thanks again for all your help.