On 2019/11/02 05:04, Chris Bennett wrote: > On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 09:24:05AM -0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2019-11-01, Chris Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > NO. You need to use pkg_add -u -Dsnap. > > > > Normally when pkg_add doesn't have a full path to the package directory > > (e.g. PKG_PATH=http://mirror/pub/OpenBSD/6.6/packages/amd64/) > > it constructs it from a hostname in PKG_PATH or a partial path in > > /etc/installurl. To do that it has to add e.g. 6.6/packages/amd64 > > to the partial path. > > > > It decides whether to use 6.6/ (or other version number) or snapshots/ > > based on whether the current version is a snapshot or not (from the > > "sysctl kern.version" output). > > > > All that -Dsnap does is say "use snapshots/ even if this looks like > > it's a release (no suffix after "6.6"). You only ever need it if you're > > a) running snapshota and b) are in the brief period in the run-up to > > release where the version number has no suffix. > > > > > Occasionally you might need to use sysupgrade -s. That happened to me > > > from one -current to another. > > > > sysupgrade -s is sysupgrade's equivalent to pkg_add -Dsnap. So again you > > would only ever need it directly in the run-up to release. > > > > > > This happened to me with a snapshot from before -release and getting a > snapshot right after -release. Perhaps this should be mentioned in man > sysupgrade(8)? The error message ftp something was not intuitive. > sysupgrade -s is logical and reasonable, but wasn't at all obvious from > the error message. I have had the same error message when a connection > was a problem. > In any case, I was able to fix the problem. > > Thanks, > Chris Bennett > >
The error message is better now (post-6.6) though there is still some room for improvement (can't currently move from "6.6-beta" to "6.6" via sysupgrade without hacking the script slightly). Getting the amount of documentation right is a bit of a balancing act, it could be written in more explicit detail, but it makes the doc more complex for something which is only needed over a ~10 day period.
