Josh Grosse wrote: > On 2015-09-23 09:41, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 02:55:21PM +0200, Thuban wrote: > > >> Is it possible to upgrade from 5.7 yo 5.8 using this flag : > >> cvs -d$CVSROOT checkout -rOPENBSD_5_8 -P src > > > > In almost all cases, a binary upgrade followed by sysmerge will be > > quicker and > > easier, but in the general case, yes. > > Source code "upgrades" are possible, but completely unsupported. So any
One of the reasons they're not supported is because that's not how developers upgrade. In particular, the machines building the 5.8 release were not upgraded from 5.7 that way. They were building current the whole time in between. You may well be the first person to even try it.
