On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 07:59:35PM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I will want to update my NetBSD installation from 9.99.82 from source > > and am inclined toward 10.99.1 rather than 10.0_BETA. I use "cvs up > > -dP -A" to update the source on base system and pkgsrc, currently am on > > native X.
> As your current installation is in the "bad" time window, you will have to > follow Chuck's guide to safely update: > https://wiki.netbsd.org/features/UFS2ea/ > But most likely you will decide to no not need EAs and the easy upgrade > path is to stay with FFSv2 (i.e.: not run ufs2ea-flip, but only fsck). > This is the path we expect most users to take. > Martin I don't know what you mean by the "bad" time window but think now I do better to maintain compatibility, especially since the entropy bug, which gets in the way of building packages, might still pose problems as nia says. A couple days ago, didn't you say the branch was 10 hours away? Has Linux emulation improved since NetBSD 9.99.82? Tom