On 07/25/18 12:57, Rudolf Sykora wrote: > I'd perhaps like to switch to a recent snapshot. > I read > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html > but do not quite understand it.
There could be some variations depending on what you are upgrading from. If you jump too far (across several releases in one go) you will land in unsupported territory. It's quite probable the resulting system will work just fine, but if it does not, getting help with any problems you see during or after the upgrade will be harder. > If I download the snapshot (ie bsd.rd), boot from it, choose Upgrade > at the prompt, and upgrade any installed packages (??using pkg_add -u where > available, otherwise from updated ports??), do I still have to follow > those points described further down on the page, such as > > 2018/04/04 - PF_TRANS_ALTQ removed > > etc.? It's useful to read about the changes, but in almost all cases just upgrading to a snapshot will see all those issues handled automatically. I've sometimes needed an extra sysmerge in addition to the automatic one, but that is a lot less scary than it may sound to some. Of course I've written about that too[1]. > I'd expect I should watch for changes of syntax for configuration > files, right? Do read the upgrade notes. They contain things that are useful to know, but in most cases as several people have pointed out already, the changes are handled but the upgrade program and possibly a subsequent sysmerge. - Peter [1] https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2012/07/keeping-your-openbsd-system-in-trim.html -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
