+1 remote upgrades are so clean and effective, and the directions are clear enough that I've not been able to drink enough beer to interfere with the process.
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 05:16:15PM +0000, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > I'm surprised you've had so much help. Personally and If I had time I'd > > want to find out the problem but I'd be wiping and reinstalling from > > scratch anyway, especially with an unknown cause. Of course having > > install scripts makes that decision much easier. It shouldn't be hard > > to copy your configs off, just make a root drive backup first in case > > you miss something. Surely faster than reading the upgrade guides for > > 7 releases. > > Boohoo. 7 releases. That's called backlog. Or dropping the ball. > > Upgrade every six months or every year and you won't have to suffer > through this ! > > As far as I'm concerned, the major advantage OpenBSD has over lots of > other stuff is that you can decide to update much more easily. The only > question in 99% of the cases is: do you have enough time to do it ? > > The next version of the OS is always better than the previous one, and > generally, all things that used to work do work still. If something breaks, > it's considered a major issue to be fixed shortly. > > Heck, even though we sometimes mothball some old shit, we're agressively > promoting the use of completely obsolete wacky hardware thanks to our > obsessive-compulsive old-shit specialists. We have a track-record of > still running on cheese boxes that the distinguished competition abandonned > years ago. > > > As opposed to a lot of other places where generally, you wait&see on the ml > for a few weeks to make sure your stuff won't fall apart when you update.
