rookie questions about flavors

2015-09-23 Thread Thuban
Hello, I'm not sure to understand correctly somme points : 1. A snapshot is a build made at one time of the developpement, more recent than *-stable* flavor. It is not *-current*. Can we consider a snapshot as an unreleased *5.8* at this time. Or is it above *5.8*? 2. In odrer to build the system,

Re: rookie questions about flavors

2015-09-23 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 02:55:21PM +0200, Thuban wrote: > Hello, > I'm not sure to understand correctly somme points : > 1. A snapshot is a build made at one time of the developpement, more > recent than *-stable* flavor. > It is not *-current*. Can we consider a snapshot as an unreleased *5.8* > a

Re: rookie questions about flavors

2015-09-23 Thread Thuban
Thanks a lot for this answer. > > 3. If one use a 5.8 snapshot (i.e [1] ), is it possible to apply updates > > for 5.8 *-stable* later? > > No. As I said earlier (and would be clear from a careful reading of the FAQ), > snapshots track -current, not -stable. Finding an install58.iso in a snapshot

Re: rookie questions about flavors

2015-09-23 Thread Josh Grosse
On 2015-09-23 09:41, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 02:55:21PM +0200, Thuban wrote: Is it possible to upgrade from 5.7 yo 5.8 using this flag : cvs -d$CVSROOT checkout -rOPENBSD_5_8 -P src In almost all cases, a binary upgrade followed by sysmerge will be quicker an

Re: rookie questions about flavors

2015-09-23 Thread David Dahlberg
Am Mittwoch, den 23.09.2015, 14:55 +0200 schrieb Thuban: > 1. A snapshot is a build made at one time of the developpement, more > recent than *-stable* flavor. Correct. > It is not *-current*. Can we consider a snapshot as an unreleased > *5.8* > at this time. Or is it above *5.8*? At this poin

Re: rookie questions about flavors

2015-09-23 Thread Ted Unangst
Josh Grosse wrote: > On 2015-09-23 09:41, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 02:55:21PM +0200, Thuban wrote: > > >> Is it possible to upgrade from 5.7 yo 5.8 using this flag : > >> cvs -d$CVSROOT checkout -rOPENBSD_5_8 -P src > > > > In almost all cases, a binary upgrade

Re: rookie questions about flavors

2015-09-23 Thread Josh Grosse
On 2015-09-23 10:52, Ted Unangst wrote: You may well be the first person to even try it. Peter was correct, though. It is *possible*. :) I haven't produced live media since 5.1, so it's been several years since I last needed to do this. And, if I'd done a better job of pre-launch planning,

Re: rookie questions about flavors

2015-09-23 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015-09-23, David Dahlberg wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 23.09.2015, 14:55 +0200 schrieb Thuban: >> >> Is it possible to upgrade from 5.7 yo 5.8 using this flag : >> cvs -d$CVSROOT checkout -rOPENBSD_5_8 -P src > > Er, ay, never done it this way but I should think so, if you do it > carefully.