On 12/19/11 15:55, Lars Kotthoff wrote:
Hi list,
the OpenBSD upgrade pages carry a warning at the top "Note: Upgrades are only
supported from one release to the release immediately following it. Do not skip
releases."
What's the reason for this warning? I've had a look at the upgrade steps and the
only thing that seems to assume a certain system configuration is the update of
the configuration files using the patches. This shouldn't be a problem when
using sysmerge though, should it?
To be clear, I'm not intending to start a flame war about OpenBSD upgrade
processes, I was just wondering why releases shouldn't be skipped. I'm looking
to upgrade a machine running 4.6 to 5.0 and would obviously prefer to do this in
one step instead of four.
Thanks,
Lars
The reason is that things could change from release to release,
such that applying an OpenBSD 5.x upgrade might cause problems
with OpenBSD 5.y. Now, it may be the case that a procedure
could be the same in multiple updates, but having specific
directions for each release gets people into the mind set of
looking for an update guide rather than assume they just know.
In your case, I'd save all relevant data to the machine and do
a fresh install. Using a different disk means that you can mount
the previous one and copy files as needed from it.
--STeve Andre'
