Hi Jacob Thanks for that.
Shane On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 4:28 PM Jacob Adams <tookm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 10/17/19 9:49 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Shane Lazarus <shane.laza...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > >> I was interested in what it would do by default, and in how I could alter > >> those defaults if I did not like them. > >> > >> The sysupgrade man page informed me of a configuration file. > > > > Your complaint directly referenced the configuration filename > > /auto_upgrade.conf > > > > That filename is not mentioned in the sysupgrade man page, as you just > > claimed. > > > > In fact, it is mentioned nowhere. Your following complaints are that > > it is mentioned nowhere. > > Quoting directly from https://man.openbsd.org/sysupgrade : > "FILES > > /auto_upgrade.conf > Response file for the ramdisk kernel." > > Shane, you appear to be on the right track. From what I can tell it seems to > be > the same thing as install.conf in autoinstall. > > According to autoinstall(8): > > "The response file is a line-oriented ASCII text file. The format of each > line is: > > question = answer > > question is an installer question (not including the question mark) or a > non-ambiguous part of it, consisting of whitespace separated words. answer is > the answer to the question. Passwords may be in plaintext, encrypted with > encrypt(1), or set to ‘*************’ (13 '*'s) to disable password logins, > only > permitting alternative access methods (for example, ssh(1) keys)." > > Therefore it seems that to ensure that the sets you do not want installed are > not installed you can use the "Set name(s)" question. > > For example to just install the base system and no other sets, hypothetically > you would put: > "Set name(s) = -all base66.tgz bsd.mp bsd" in /auto_upgrade.conf > > However, looking at the source code this file is created by sysupgrade: > > "cat <<__EOT >/auto_upgrade.conf > Location of sets = disk > Pathname to the sets = /home/_sysupgrade/ > Set name(s) = done > Directory does not contain SHA256.sig. Continue without verification = yes > __EOT" > > Thus you can't really change this unless you want to edit the script directly. > > The easiest method to install a limited number of sets would be to use > sysupgrade -n and then remove the sets you do not want from /home/_sysupgrade > before rebooting. > > Hope this helps, > Jacob >
