On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 03:47:00PM -0400, Ted Unangst wrote: > Andreas KusalanandaKähäri wrote: > > I'll try copying from an existing installation, and if that proves to be > > too problematic, I guess I just have to check out the OPENBSD_6_1 branch > > and build a new release (which I really had hoped I would not have to > > do). > > There's nothing magic about the "patch" files, they're just a tgz with updated > files in them. The syspatch command does some nice things like saving old > files for rollback, and downloading and verifying the contents, but if you > look in http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/syspatch/6.1/amd64/ it shouldn't be > too hard to work out your own procedure. You're on your own, but it may be > easier than building src from scratch. >
This is much appreciated. I will take responsibility for my own mistakes and I will easily recover if I screw up. Thanks Ted!
