On 10/31/2012 07:17 AM, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
/ Nick Holland wrote on Wed 31.Oct'12 at 7:03:48 -0400 /
On 10/31/12 00:13, Daniel Melameth wrote:
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Matt M. <[email protected]>
wrote:
Yesterday I upgraded from 5.1-release to -current. Is there any
need to upgrade to 5.2-release? Could this cause issues since
-current is really newer than what's on the 5.2 media?
You are now running bleeding edge software/what will evolve and
become 5.3. "Upgrading" this machine to 5.2 will actually be a
downgrade and this is unsupported.
exactly. Please read the start of
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html
Nick.
Will the 5.2 downloads be available tomorrow? I read 1 Nov is the
release date for 5.2.
and that would be tomorrow, yes.
I will be doing my first OpenBSD upgrade as
i've only been using the OS for a few weeks now. Is it best to remove
all packages prior to upgrade and then reinstall them or should we
simply upgrade the packges using pkg_add -i once the upgrade has been
completed? (Ihave read the documentation on the website, but just for
clarity I thought i'd ask on list.)
Jamie.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade51.html
(and tomorrow.... http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade52.html )
I believe nowhere suggests unloading all packages before upgrading. If
you have found something official and current that suggests this, please
let me know.
The only reason to totally "unbuild" your machine and rebuild it would
be if your prior configuration was non-optimal (which is, admittedly,
often the case). In that case, though, you are usually better off
totally reloading the machine from scratch.
Nick.
