Joel Rees writes: > Is it unusual/unreasonable to install, not update, from a snapshot bsd.rd? > > If installing from a snapshot bsd.rd is not too unreasonable, does > everyone doing that edit /etc/pkg.conf by hand to point to the local > mirror's snapshots before re-booting, to pick up the firmware stuff in > the first boot? > > In my case, that would be changing > > http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/OpenBSD/%c/packages/%a > > in /etc/pkg.conf to > > http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/%a
%c typically expands to 'snapshots' when you're running snapshots, but around release tagging time it's temporarily changed to match what the release will expand to. In a few weeks %c will expand to 'snapshots' again.
