I'm also fairly new to OpenBSD. As I understand from this thread, having
installed -current (4.4) from a snapshot CD, the easiest way to keep -current
is to burn a subsequent snapshot to a CD and follow the upgrade process from
there?
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Doug Milam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm also fairly new to OpenBSD. As I understand from this thread, having
installed -current (4.4) from a snapshot CD, the easiest way to keep -current
is to burn a subsequent snapshot to a CD and follow the upgrade process from
On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 01:39:04PM -0800, Doug Milam wrote:
I'm also fairly new to OpenBSD. As I understand from this thread, having
installed -current (4.4) from a snapshot CD, the easiest way to keep -current
is to burn a subsequent snapshot to a CD and follow the upgrade process from
there?
Thanks; that's straightforward and refreshingly more direct than I thought. A
hallmark of OpenBSD!
* *
http://milam.homeunix.net
--- On Sun, 11/2/08, Tobias Ulmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Tobias Ulmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Perpetually Current
To: Doug Milam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc
On Dec 27, 2007 11:17 AM, new_guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to install OpenBSD *once* and keep it patched and secured for
many years there after (5 - 7 years) in a production environment. Would it
be feasible to get a snapshot today and follow -current for many years w/o
having to
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 01:42:01PM -0300, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
I have quite the same problem. my OBSD routers are usually old PII
boxes and doing this kind of upgrade on them is not trivial. other, I
have some remote routers I cant do this, so They run FBSD. I'd rather
use OBSD on my routers,
* Nenhum_de_Nos [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-01-02 17:49]:
On Dec 27, 2007 11:17 AM, new_guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to install OpenBSD *once* and keep it patched and secured for
many years there after (5 - 7 years) in a production environment. Would it
be feasible to get a
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 01:42:01PM -0300, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
On Dec 27, 2007 11:17 AM, new_guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to install OpenBSD *once* and keep it patched and secured for
many years there after (5 - 7 years) in a production environment. Would it
be feasible to get
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:40:40PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
There has to be a way without CD. Can't you put the 4.2 rd kernel on
the root filesystem and boot that then run the installer, pulling the
install sets via ftp? I suppose for remote units you need some sort of
remote shell
Hi Matheus,
Nenhum_de_Nos wrote on Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 01:42:01PM -0300:
my OBSD routers are usually old PII boxes
and doing this kind of upgrade on them is not trivial.
Saying this kind of upgrade, you refer to the official upgrade
process, i presume?
The official upgrade process is
On Jan 2, 2008 4:57 PM, Ingo Schwarze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Matheus,
Nenhum_de_Nos wrote on Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 01:42:01PM -0300:
my OBSD routers are usually old PII boxes
and doing this kind of upgrade on them is not trivial.
Saying this kind of upgrade, you refer to the official
I would like to install OpenBSD *once* and keep it patched and secured for
many years there after (5 - 7 years) in a production environment. Would it
be feasible to get a snapshot today and follow -current for many years w/o
having to reinstall? Basically, this approach would skip -stable and
On Dec 28, 2007 4:07 AM, Ingo Schwarze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Keeping a system up to date involves manual work,
either a little easy work for manual upgrades now and then,
or lots of hard and scary work for building and maintaining
an automatic system. You choose according to your
the project.
Thanks,
Brad
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On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:07:00PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote:
The second problem are flag days, when something has changed such
that you almost certainly want to reinstall the OS. The move from
a.out to ELF binary format is a good example of that.
ah yeah, and that happens every second
* STeve Andre' [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-27 15:43]:
On Thursday 27 December 2007 09:17:37 new_guy wrote:
I would like to install OpenBSD *once* and keep it patched and secured for
many years there after (5 - 7 years) in a production environment. Would it
be feasible to get a snapshot today
On Thursday 27 December 2007 09:17:37 new_guy wrote:
I would like to install OpenBSD *once* and keep it patched and secured for
many years there after (5 - 7 years) in a production environment. Would it
be feasible to get a snapshot today and follow -current for many years w/o
having to
On Thursday 27 December 2007 10:07:00 Henning Brauer wrote:
* STeve Andre' [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-27 15:43]:
On Thursday 27 December 2007 09:17:37 new_guy wrote:
I would like to install OpenBSD *once* and keep it patched and secured
for many years there after (5 - 7 years) in a
On 12/27/07, new_guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to install OpenBSD *once* and keep it patched and secured for
many years there after (5 - 7 years) in a production environment. Would it
be feasible to get a snapshot today and follow -current for many years w/o
having to reinstall?
* STeve Andre' [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-27 16:42]:
On Thursday 27 December 2007 10:07:00 Henning Brauer wrote:
* STeve Andre' [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-27 15:43]:
On Thursday 27 December 2007 09:17:37 new_guy wrote:
I would like to install OpenBSD *once* and keep it patched and
On Thursday 27 December 2007 10:46:26 Henning Brauer wrote:
* STeve Andre' [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-27 16:42]:
On Thursday 27 December 2007 10:07:00 Henning Brauer wrote:
* STeve Andre' [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-27 15:43]:
On Thursday 27 December 2007 09:17:37 new_guy wrote:
I
* STeve Andre' [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-27 17:31]:
Thats my point: running -current means building from source and
thus being affected.
huh?
not at all.
you use snapshots of course.
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On Dec 27 06:17:37, new_guy wrote:
I would like to install OpenBSD *once* and keep it patched and secured
for many years there after (5 - 7 years) in a production environment.
That's what upgrades are for.
Would it be feasible to get a snapshot today and follow -current for
many years w/o
On Dec 27, 2007 8:35 AM, Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* STeve Andre' [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-27 17:31]:
Thats my point: running -current means building from source and
thus being affected.
huh?
not at all.
you use snapshots of course.
STeve understands that but I don't
On Dec 27, 2007 10:47 AM, Jan Stary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's about one hour of work twice a year - what's wrong with that? Why
do you want to stay -current? What problem are you trying to solve, or
what are you trying to achieve by doing that?
obviously automation. regardless of
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:21:54AM -0800, Karsten McMinn wrote:
On Dec 27, 2007 10:47 AM, Jan Stary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's about one hour of work twice a year - what's wrong with that? Why
do you want to stay -current? What problem are you trying to solve, or
what are you trying to
Karsten McMinn wrote on Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:21:54AM -0800:
obviously automation. regardless of personal administration ethics
it seems like a fair question.
If you understand the OP's question that way, you should also provide
the following answer to the OP: There is no standard way for
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