On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:49 AM, L. V. Lammert <l...@omnitec.net> wrote: > At 10:41 AM 1/11/2012, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> >> > Have a 4.3 server [rest deleted] >> >> There is a ton of documentation that makes it clear you are on your >> own more than two releases back. > > > So, you're advocating incomplete information? Is that not a bigger problem? > > Lee
Bite the bullet, upgrade, life is better at 5.0 Prior to last year, I had been upgrading OpenBSD by clean install, then install and configure all packages, it was a major hassle. Things hit critical mass about a year ago. I had five systems on either 4.2 or 4.3. I gave in and decided to learn the "new" upgrade tools. As a result I upgraded nearly all my 10+ OpenBSD systems to 4.9 over the course of 3-4 weeks. That was a total of 43 upgrades counting each release on each system. I'm more confident in my OpenBSD systems now and the 4.9->5.0 upgrades went even more smoothly (once I figured out /etc/rc.d/). I'm not sure how I missed them before, but follow the upgrade guides is essential: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade50.html Once you get to 4.3, upgrading your systems becomes a whole lot easier, thanks in large part to sysmerge(8), introduced in 4.4 The upgrade from 4.2 -> 4.3 was still a bit of a hassle, but after that upgrades went fairly smooth with little incident. It is very interesting to see sysmerge(8) get better and better with each release. Go get'em man, those upgrades are nowhere near as hard as they once were, back in the day when you had to grep 10,000 LOC, uphill, both ways, just to get schooled. Have a nice day, Barry
