On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 11:08:34AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > Steve Rikli <[email protected]> writes: > > > Assuming that's the deal, and further assuming no changes in the daily > > sets compression methods status quo, a PR for sysupgrade seems prudent: > > > > - remove sparc64 from the "tar.xz" if-then-else code > > - add evbarm-aarch64 to it instead > > > > This would remove the need to change ARCHIVE_EXTENSION in the default > > sysupgrade.conf for both system types. Does that sound correct? > > Perhaps sysupgrade should just look at the place where sets are supposed > to be and figure out which variant is there and use it. These are the > current defaults, but any user can choose to change them.
That would likely be better (more flexible, less hardcoded dependencies), yes. If I file a PR I'll include your note. My original thinking was simply to update sysupgrade out-of-the-box defaults to match NetBSD daily sets infrastructure, hopefully resulting in an improved upgrade experience for new or less experienced users. Cheers, sr.
