On 2015-03-14, Harald Dunkel <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 03/14/15 12:54, Steven McDonald wrote: >> >> /var/tmp was replaced with a symlink to /tmp between 5.6 and 5.7. Compiling >> from source isn't a supported way to upgrade from one to the other; this is >> well documented in the FAQ: >> >> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BldBinary >> > > Agreed. But release(8) doesn't make any assumptions about > the base system, AFAICS. Using 5.6 stable to checkout and > build OPENBSD_5_7_BASE appears reasonable.
Sorry it isn't. If you have to move forwards from 5.6 then you'll need to pay attention to various notes in http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html, in particular the static PIE change. I think all the documentation we have about building says that you should update to a recent snapshot first. But of course snapshots have now moved beyond 5.7 so unless you have a slightly older snap, you're at least in "unsupported" territory.
