On 2017-08-26, Bryan Linton <b...@shoshoni.info> wrote: > On 2017-08-25 13:09:14, Jordon <open...@sirjorj.com> wrote: >> I’ve been running snapshots on my machine for a while now. About once or >> twice a week I will interrupt the boot with ‘bsd.rd’ and run through the ‘U’ >> process to get the latest builds. The only weirdness is that it alway >> defaults to a really slow mirror (i have to manually enter a different one) >> and it simply doesnt work when I enter a number from the list. Is this a >> proper way to update?
For upgrades, it will default to the mirror in /etc/installurl. >> What about when the version gets bumped? Since the switch to 6.2, this >> method doesn’t work because it doesnt give the list of packages - just the >> kernel ones. Is this expected behavior and the solution is to boot from a >> flash drive or PXE from the latest 6.2 media? >> > > The older bsd.rd is probably only looking for files tagged with > its own version. I.e. If you have 6.1 installed, it's looking > for base61.tgz and not base60.tgz or base62.tgz. Right - you should always use a new bsd.rd to do the upgrade.
