On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:04:49AM +0200, Ing. Alexander KrE!ek wrote: > Hello, > > thank you all for your "binary upgrade" responses, but I do not think > that it is the right method for my conditions. > > My machines are about 500km away and my remote access is solved by > openvpn clients. Physical access to them and booting from external CD > (or other installXX.iso image) is possible - hopefully only about once a > year. > > Quick look into /usr/src/etc/Makefile reveals, that only way to install > rc.d scripts are through "make distribution-etc-root-var", which is > called by "make release" (so here is that binary upgrade), but not by > "make install" or "make build". > > So, > 1) is there any way to do binary upgrade from release files without > loosing remote connectivity? > 2) upgrade from source will be no more supported for obsd5 ? > 3) if I do that cp/chmod/chgrp for /etc/rc.d/* files by hand, what else > will be missing in upgraded system?
man 8 sysmerge That is the solution you are looking for. http://openbsd.org/faq/upgrade49.html also contains advice that works for most upgrades (look under ``final steps''. -0- -- Meskimen's Law: There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over.
