Upgrades are noiser on macppc (and loongson and octeon) than on other architectures because boot firmware changes and/or tips to complete an OpenBSD installation are always printed, even though they are not needed after an upgrade:
INSTALL.macppc describes how to configure Open Firmware to boot OpenBSD. The command to boot OpenBSD will be something like 'boot hd:,ofwboot /bsd'. Shall we limit those one-shot bits relevant to new installations to actual installations? I don't see how those are useful after an upgrade of a working OpenBSD install. Index: miniroot/install.sub =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/distrib/miniroot/install.sub,v retrieving revision 1.1213 diff -u -p -r1.1213 install.sub --- miniroot/install.sub 19 Oct 2022 08:24:14 -0000 1.1213 +++ miniroot/install.sub 5 Nov 2022 21:49:38 -0000 @@ -2951,13 +2951,16 @@ __EOT CONGRATULATIONS! Your OpenBSD $MODE has been successfully completed! __EOT - [[ $MODE == install ]] && cat <<__EOT + if [[ $MODE == install ]]; then + cat <<'__EOT' When you login to your new system the first time, please read your mail using the 'mail' command. __EOT - md_congrats + md_congrats + fi + $AI && >/tmp/ai/ai.done }