Re: confused about updating -current

2010-04-29 Thread trustlevel-two
If you use a snapshot you'll be very close to current and --- On Thu, 29/4/10, Jacob Meuser jake...@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: From: Jacob Meuser jake...@sdf.lonestar.org Subject: Re: confused about updating -current To: misc@openbsd.org Date: Thursday, 29 April, 2010, 2:59 On Wed, Apr 28

Re: confused about updating -current

2010-04-28 Thread Ahlsen-Girard, Edward F CTR USAF AFSOC AFSOC/A6OK
On 2010-04-27 23:01:30 Alastair Johnson wrote: if i install a system from install47.iso taken from the snapshots folder on a mirror i end up with a -current system eg: OpenBSD 4.7-current (GENERIC) #636: the docs state that you cant go from -current to -stable so my question is - what

Re: confused about updating -current

2010-04-28 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:37 -0500, Ahlsen-Girard, Edward F CTR USAF AFSOC AFSOC/A6OK edward.ahlsen-girard@hurlburt.af.mil wrote: On 2010-04-27 23:01:30 Alastair Johnson wrote: if i install a system from install47.iso taken from the snapshots folder on a mirror i end up with a -current

Re: confused about updating -current

2010-04-28 Thread Ted Roby
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote: Nor am I, but I do that often with base installs and have not had any major issues. There would be security concerns (especially with ports if you're using a full blown desktop). You can follow -current if you have the

Re: confused about updating -current

2010-04-28 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:08 -0600, Ted Roby ted.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote: Nor am I, but I do that often with base installs and have not had any major issues. There would be security concerns (especially with ports if

Re: confused about updating -current

2010-04-28 Thread Ted Roby
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote: I did not say anything about -stable. Occasionally installing snapshots has nothing to do with -stable. Not sure why you bring it up? Brad I was just throwing in my two bits after everything else that had been said.

Re: confused about updating -current

2010-04-28 Thread trustlevel-two
I've written setup scripts (took a while though) for my different systems which will never be as quick as the upgrade process but I've got it reasonably quick and means I can keep moving forward like the openbsd project does, switch between current, stable and snapshots without a sudden need to

Re: confused about updating -current

2010-04-28 Thread trustlevel-two
--- On Wed, 28/4/10, trustlevel-...@yahoo.co.uk trustlevel-...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I also found whilst the requests per second stayed the same for 4.6 to 4.7 (web page) the throughput doubled (cpu bottlenecked). Sorry mistyped that, it was the requests that bottlenecked the cpu, not the

Re: confused about updating -current

2010-04-28 Thread Chris Bennett
A while back on some thread, someone said that they ran -current versions for a long while, updating ports tree for that snapshot and could run with that particular -current as long as they liked by adding packages as needed by building with that ports snapshot, rather than using a later ports

Re: confused about updating -current

2010-04-28 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:05 -0500, Chris Bennett ch...@bennettconstruction.biz wrote: A while back on some thread, someone said that they ran -current versions for a long while, updating ports tree for that snapshot and could run with that particular -current as long as they liked by adding

Re: confused about updating -current

2010-04-28 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 05:05:06PM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: A while back on some thread, someone said that they ran -current versions for a long while, updating ports tree for that snapshot and could run with that particular -current as long as they liked by adding packages as needed by

confused about updating -current

2010-04-27 Thread Alastair Johnson
if i install a system from install47.iso taken from the snapshots folder on a mirror i end up with a -current system eg: OpenBSD 4.7-current (GENERIC) #636: the docs state that you cant go from -current to -stable so my question is - what happens if i do update it? surely thats exactly what will

Re: confused about updating -current

2010-04-27 Thread Theo de Raadt
if i install a system from install47.iso taken from the snapshots folder on a mirror i end up with a -current system eg: OpenBSD 4.7-current (GENERIC) #636: the docs state that you cant go from -current to -stable so my question is - what happens if i do update it? You'll experience

Re: confused about updating -current

2010-04-27 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:01 +0100, Alastair Johnson att...@googlemail.com wrote: if i install a system from install47.iso taken from the snapshots folder on a mirror i end up with a -current system eg: OpenBSD 4.7-current (GENERIC) #636: the docs state that you cant go from -current to