On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 09:24:05AM -0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2019-11-01, Chris Bennett <cpb_m...@bennettconstruction.us> wrote: > > NO. You need to use pkg_add -u -Dsnap. > > Normally when pkg_add doesn't have a full path to the package directory > (e.g. PKG_PATH=http://mirror/pub/OpenBSD/6.6/packages/amd64/) > it constructs it from a hostname in PKG_PATH or a partial path in > /etc/installurl. To do that it has to add e.g. 6.6/packages/amd64 > to the partial path. > > It decides whether to use 6.6/ (or other version number) or snapshots/ > based on whether the current version is a snapshot or not (from the > "sysctl kern.version" output). > > All that -Dsnap does is say "use snapshots/ even if this looks like > it's a release (no suffix after "6.6"). You only ever need it if you're > a) running snapshota and b) are in the brief period in the run-up to > release where the version number has no suffix. > > > Occasionally you might need to use sysupgrade -s. That happened to me > > from one -current to another. > > sysupgrade -s is sysupgrade's equivalent to pkg_add -Dsnap. So again you > would only ever need it directly in the run-up to release. > >
This happened to me with a snapshot from before -release and getting a snapshot right after -release. Perhaps this should be mentioned in man sysupgrade(8)? The error message ftp something was not intuitive. sysupgrade -s is logical and reasonable, but wasn't at all obvious from the error message. I have had the same error message when a connection was a problem. In any case, I was able to fix the problem. Thanks, Chris Bennett
