at the risk of sounding condescending, but at least partly for the archives, there is always good information to be found in the FAQ's "Following -current" section, https://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html
On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 10:35:24AM +0000, easytoremember13285 wrote: > Here's what I do: > every 7 days: pkg_add -u > pkg_delete -a > every 14 days: sysupgrade -s > sysmerge > fw_update > pkg_add-u > pkg_delete > -a Assuming the '>'s are not redirections ;), I mostly concur. Depending on circumstances, including whether I am overwhelmed by deadlines or travelling, I try to do the pkg_add -u && sysupgrade -s (at most times preceded by cvs checkouts) at least once a week on development-ish systems. > 1) When I do sysupgrade -s, I see that the system runs sysmerge and fw_update > in that command automatically, so do I need to manually run them again after > reboot? At times the sysmerge sysupgrade -s runs will flash a message about running a new sysmerge to resolve something, but at most times, no further action is required. > 2) Is my time frame of updating packages every week and system every 2 weeks > fine, or do you suggest something else? > 3) Is there any thing else I should do? a pkg_add -u can run fine in the background, and if there is nothing to update it will finish rather quickly, so there is no reason to space the runs out really. There might at times be specific reasons to be careful, but in those cases the FAQ I pointed to earlier will have information on how to proceed. I think you have most things covered. To my mind one of the more useful short pieces I have written is "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks.", https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html or https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2024/09/you-have-installed-openbsd-now-for.html if you don't mind Google's trackers, which I have incrementally updated for a few releases now. All the best, Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blogposts https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
