> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2018 at 1:41 PM > From: "Stuart Henderson" <s...@spacehopper.org> > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: vmd - Unable to reboot Alpine guest > > On 2018-02-19, Martijn van Duren <openbsd+m...@list.imperialat.at> wrote: > > Hello Aham, > > > > On 02/18/18 21:09, Aham Brahmasmi wrote: > >> Hi Carlos, > >> > >> Thank you for your response. > >> > >> I have been learning and understanding OpenBSD for around one month now. > >> As such, I had installed -release, and used syspatch to reach -stable. > >> > >> I have spent some time right now trying to understand the mechanism to > >> reach -current from -stable. > >> > >> From what I understand, I first need to upgrade to the latest snapshot. > >> From there, I need to use source build instructions at > >> https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Bld to reach -current. > > > > There's no need to build from source, just upgrading via the latest > > snapshot suffices. > >> > >> I would like to do the above because I am also interested in the spamd > >> and IPv6 diff that phessler@ has. But right now, I am quite a bit > >> inexperienced, so you would have to be patient with me. > >> > >> From what I understand, to install snapshot I need to download > >> https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/bsd.rd, boot that > >> at the boot prompt and then (U)pgrade from there. > >> > > That is correct. > > If you don't intent to work on the source, there's no need to build it > > yourself. > > Unless wanting to test a diff. However for that you typically don't need > to rebuild the whole system. > > >
Thank you Dave, Mike, Martijn and Stuart for your helpful responses. Based on what I have understood from this thread, upgrading to snapshot should suffice to run -current, unless one intends to do development on the source. For diffs, one does not need to rebuild the whole system. @Carlos et al, I will now try to upgrade to snapshot from the URL - https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/bsd.rd and report back. Considering it has worked for Dave, I hope it will work for me as well. @Dave, Please do not apologize. I am myself unable to understand how to reply most of the times. When you say "upgrade packages", I think you refer to "pkg_add -u". When you say "clean out old dependencies", I am unable to understand what would need to be done. Currently, I have not installed any packages, since I am still learning the functionality in the base. Thanks. Regards, ab. ---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|---------|--
