On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 12:34:53AM -0700, Rob Baldassano wrote:
> I have been running OpenBSD 3.6 since the day it came out, and am now in need
> up going to 3.9
>
> The question is:
> What upgrade issues have folks run into?
> I'm running it on a DELL desktop.
>
> BTW, some of the reasons I want to upgrade:
> 1. Support for PHP in the Apache mods.
> 2. Increased security
> 3. webmail
> 4. I REALLY want to get the Xwindows environment working (never did on 3.6)
> 5. I'm looking to expand some functionality and want to include things like:
> PHP, MySQL, Apache, a PHP based store front, Java - if it's available yet,
> and general "client side functionality"
Several Java implementations are in ports; Sun Java works on i386 only,
I believe.
> 6. So that I can deploy my current windows box as a backup server (It sucks
> .... low memory and CPU for windows, but I know OpenBSD will run fine on it
> -- I hope).
>
>
> So... Any hints, pitfalls, suggestions that people have run into
> before? in general is it safe to do an Upgrade? a former co-worker
> says "NO don't do that, never trust upgrades". I tend to disagree.
Upgrading and installing OpenBSD are usually quite painless. Making a
mistake occasionally is a given, but since you should have backups
anyway...
Also, the only thing that you are likely to do wrong and is hard to
recover from is untarring etc39.tgz over your current configuration.
(That, and forgetting the 'p' flag to tar, but that's easily solved by
booting from removable media.)
However, if you upgrade by this much, you will most likely have to
rethink and possibly rewrite at least a couple of configuration files.
Joachim
