On 2019-08-01, Harald Dunkel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > On 7/30/19 3:08 PM, Hrvoje Popovski wrote: >> >> try to update both boxes to latest snapshot at least because in snapshot >> you have excellent tool called sysupgrade ... you will love it :) >> >> with this tool you can upgrade os to latest snapshot without any problem >> over ssh :) >> > This is cool. > > Due to space and speed restrictions (compact flash card) and to reduce > downtime I would like to avoid the games and the Xwindow "balast" on my > gateways. Does sysupgrade recognize the tar balls that are already > installed, or does it become a "sysinstall" in this case? > > Sorry for asking, but the man page https://man.openbsd.org/sysupgrade > doesn't tell.
A normal sysupgrade run installs all sets. You can manually do part of what you want with sysupgrade -n, this still downloads all sets but you're able to rm the unwanted ones before rebooting onto the bsd.upgrade kernel and at least save untarring them.
