> > I have been doing inplace upgrades on systems for years, almost entirely > successfully. My scripts are in pkgsrc/sysutils/etcmanage, which in > addition to etcmanage has BUILD-NetBSD and INSTALL-NetBSD. This will > seem like a lot, but I find once I'm set up, updating is very easy and > reliable.
Okay, really great info and this looks like a reasonable path to have staged version upgrades. If I get motivated this is the option. Still. So nice to enjoy NetBSD 5.1. And Python 2.6.6 😂 Thanks everyone. -Joel
