Re: sysupgrade with latest snapshot: The directory '/home/_sysupgrade/' does not exist.

2020-10-06 Thread nick
It's the time between snapshots and release. pkg_add -ui -Dsnap Is what you need. On 2020-10-05 22:09, Why 42? The lists account. wrote: ... > 2. Figure out how to tell sysupgrade the right answers in advance i.e. > via the auto_upgrade.conf mechanism This is fairly easy: sysupgrade -

Re: sysupgrade with latest snapshot: The directory '/home/_sysupgrade/' does not exist.

2020-10-05 Thread Why 42? The lists account.
> ... > > 2. Figure out how to tell sysupgrade the right answers in advance i.e. > > via the auto_upgrade.conf mechanism > > This is fairly easy: > > sysupgrade -s -n > vi /auto_upgrade.conf, edit "Pathname to the sets" > reboot > ... FYI, or for the record, I just tried the above and it

Re: sysupgrade with latest snapshot: The directory '/home/_sysupgrade/' does not exist.

2020-09-29 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
[cutting back on tos to just misc@] On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 02:25:15PM +0200, Why 42? The lists account. wrote: > > have in the back of my mind "consider repairing" ... > > So I just have to ask ... what then would be the supported/approved disk > layout for OpenBSD 6.8 on my Intel 8i5 NUC with

Re: sysupgrade with latest snapshot: The directory '/home/_sysupgrade/' does not exist.

2020-09-29 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020/09/29 14:25, Why 42? The lists account. wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 08:25:34AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > ... > > So we are at an impasse. The recommended solution is for people to stop > > making sysupgrade-incompatible layouts in the future, and to consider > > repairing the

Re: sysupgrade with latest snapshot: The directory '/home/_sysupgrade/' does not exist.

2020-09-29 Thread Why 42? The lists account.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 08:25:34AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > ... > So we are at an impasse. The recommended solution is for people to stop > making sysupgrade-incompatible layouts in the future, and to consider > repairing their incompatible layouts from the past. > > if sysupgrade doesn't w

Re: sysupgrade with latest snapshot: The directory '/home/_sysupgrade/' does not exist.

2020-09-28 Thread Jacqueline Jolicoeur
On Sep 28 14:16, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2020-09-28, Greg Thomas wrote: > > "Have sysupgrade just do the right thing. For example, there could be > > a _sysupgrade user in the systems /etc/passwd, whose $HOME would > > indicate the preferred location for sets" > > > > Holy fucking ov

Re: sysupgrade with latest snapshot: The directory '/home/_sysupgrade/' does not exist.

2020-09-28 Thread Theo de Raadt
Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2020-09-28, Greg Thomas wrote: > > "Have sysupgrade just do the right thing. For example, there could be > > a _sysupgrade user in the systems /etc/passwd, whose $HOME would > > indicate the preferred location for sets" > > > > Holy fucking overkill. > > me

Re: sysupgrade with latest snapshot: The directory '/home/_sysupgrade/' does not exist.

2020-09-28 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020-09-28, Greg Thomas wrote: > "Have sysupgrade just do the right thing. For example, there could be > a _sysupgrade user in the systems /etc/passwd, whose $HOME would > indicate the preferred location for sets" > > Holy fucking overkill. meh. It *is* a problem on some systems, espe

Re: sysupgrade with latest snapshot: The directory '/home/_sysupgrade/' does not exist.

2020-09-28 Thread Craig Skinner
On Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:27:34 +0200 li...@y42.org wrote: > I subsequently added a 2nd disk to provide more space, for my /home. /home can be mounted on another disk without a symlink to the OS disk. Edit /etc/fstab with the actual mount point of /home Likewise for many other directories on other

Re: sysupgrade with latest snapshot: The directory '/home/_sysupgrade/' does not exist.

2020-09-27 Thread Why 42? The lists account.
Theo de Raadt wrote: > Your system is layed out strangely and sysupgrade cannot handle all > absurd layouts. And: > The correct proposal is: > > Install your machines in a normal way. > > It is not unreasonable. Hi, You are right, that is a reasonable requirement. This system was inst

Re: sysupgrade with latest snapshot: The directory '/home/_sysupgrade/' does not exist.

2020-09-27 Thread Greg Thomas
"Have sysupgrade just do the right thing. For example, there could be a _sysupgrade user in the systems /etc/passwd, whose $HOME would indicate the preferred location for sets" Holy fucking overkill. On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 2:29 PM Why 42? The lists account. wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 27,

Re: sysupgrade with latest snapshot: The directory '/home/_sysupgrade/' does not exist.

2020-09-27 Thread Theo de Raadt
Stuart Henderson wrote: > > 3. Have sysupgrade just do the right thing. For example, there could be > > a _sysupgrade user in the systems /etc/passwd, whose $HOME would > > indicate the preferred location for sets ... But best understand the > > problem before designing a solution :)

Re: sysupgrade with latest snapshot: The directory '/home/_sysupgrade/' does not exist.

2020-09-27 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2020-09-27, Why 42? The lists account. wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 04:25:58PM -0400, Ian Darwin wrote: >> > ... >> > after the download of the new sets and the reboot, I would have been >> > prompted as to what to do i.e. Install, Upgrade, or Shell. Then for a >> > keyboard layout (e.g.

Re: sysupgrade with latest snapshot: The directory '/home/_sysupgrade/' does not exist.

2020-09-27 Thread Theo de Raadt
Theo de Raadt wrote: > sysupgrade cannot handle strange setups. By the time we started > building it, there weren't enough free bytes left in bsd.rd to > embed an AI to come with the crazy shit people do. to cope with, I mean. Q. "bsd.rd, can you come to my house and fix this?" A. "No."

Re: sysupgrade with latest snapshot: The directory '/home/_sysupgrade/' does not exist.

2020-09-27 Thread Theo de Raadt
Why 42? The lists account. wrote: > On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 04:25:58PM -0400, Ian Darwin wrote: > > > ... > > > after the download of the new sets and the reboot, I would have been > > > prompted as to what to do i.e. Install, Upgrade, or Shell. Then for a > > > keyboard layout (e.g. de) and fo

Re: sysupgrade with latest snapshot: The directory '/home/_sysupgrade/' does not exist.

2020-09-27 Thread Why 42? The lists account.
On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 04:25:58PM -0400, Ian Darwin wrote: > > ... > > after the download of the new sets and the reboot, I would have been > > prompted as to what to do i.e. Install, Upgrade, or Shell. Then for a > > keyboard layout (e.g. de) and for the name of the disk containing OpenBSD > >

Re: sysupgrade with latest snapshot: The directory '/home/_sysupgrade/' does not exist.

2020-09-27 Thread Ian Darwin
On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 08:14:13PM +0200, Why 42? The lists account. wrote: > > I am running: > kern.version=OpenBSD 6.8-beta (GENERIC.MP) #69: Tue Sep 15 12:34:41 MDT 2020 > dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP > > I just tried to use sysupgrade and I notice t

sysupgrade with latest snapshot: The directory '/home/_sysupgrade/' does not exist.

2020-09-27 Thread Why 42? The lists account.
Hi All, I am running: kern.version=OpenBSD 6.8-beta (GENERIC.MP) #69: Tue Sep 15 12:34:41 MDT 2020 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP I just tried to use sysupgrade and I notice that its behaviour has changed a bit since my last upgrade. Previously (last si