Thanks to all as an inexperienced user in the process, my choice in this
area was more of self-protection should I mishandle the upgrade process
at some point in time. It's nice to see so many indicate I am probably
being overly protective.
Tomas Bodzar wrote:
With snapshots I follow this line :
1) download latest bsd.rd and place it in /
2) reboot and boot from bsd.rd
3) choose (U)pgrade
4) after upgrade reboot
5) # sysmerge -s your_favorite_mirror/etcXX.tgz -x
your_favorite_mirror/xetcXX.tgz
6) sometimes reboot sometimes no change so no reboot
7) sudo pkg_add -vu
I'm doing it for around 2 years and no data loss in /home or any other
part of system and my config files are ok. I tested this even when
upgrading from eg. 4.5 to 4.6, but of course that in both cases you
must read current.hml in first case and upgradeXX.html in second case
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 2:23 AM, David Shuman <[email protected]> wrote:
It appears there are issues and processes that require
the maintenance of config files and the like after an
upgrade of OpenBSD. As I am relatively new to this
process I intend to create two directories in my home
directory to keep copies of all my alterations to
OpenBSD. I hope these will assist me in the upgrade
process and protect me from loss of data/etc as I
understand the home directories are protected from
changes during the recovery process. If anyone
can point out the limitations or additional
considerations related to this process I would
appreciate the guidance. (I have made some
significant post install changes to Comixwall that
was based on OpenBSD 4.3 a while ago. However,
I have never seriously considered assuring I could
upgrade an OpenBSD system. As I am now
considering significant and long term use I need to
plan for this event.)
One directory will contain modifications
/home/{userid}/chgusr where
/home/{userid}/chgusr/etc/rc.local
{80x50 console changes)
/home/{userid}/chgusr/etc/X11/xorg.conf
{modified due to difficult hardware)
Another directory will contain additions
/home/{userid}/addusr
(djbdns a bind replacement may be in here)
where the subdirectories are the locations the
content was added to OpenBSD. I am hoping
this content can be copied after an update as
it is not a part of OpenBSD making upgrades
easier for me.
Thanks for considering and assisting in advance.
