On 2025-05-12 09:12 +02, Janne Johansson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > sysupgrade -b ?
>>
>> Oh. I think I've misunderand the semantics of sysupgrade and
>> /bsd.upgrade. I had thought that the upgrade would (like an interactive
>> install) do a newfs on each partition with a mount point specified
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>> But now that I think of it, it seems more likely that I'm wrong about
>> whether a sysupgrade does all those newfs operations.
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> sysupgrade does what an bsd.rd upgrade would do, not what a bsd.rd
> install would do.
Except that sysupgrade(8) doesn't actually do those things, from the man
page:
sysupgrade downloads the necessary files to /home/_sysupgrade, verifies
them with signify(1), and copies bsd.rd to /bsd.upgrade.
sysupgrade by default then reboots the system.
The heavy lifting is done by the bootloader and bsd.rd.
The bootloader will automatically choose /bsd.upgrade, triggering a
one-shot upgrade using the files in /home/_sysupgrade.
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