Thursday, August 01, 2019

Re: sysupgrade (Was: Re: Kernel crash in OpenBSD 6.5)

2019-08-01 8:08 GMT+02:00, Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.com>:
> Hi folks,
>
> On 7/30/19 3:08 PM, Hrvoje Popovski wrote:
>>
>> try to update both boxes to latest snapshot at least because in snapshot
>> you have excellent tool called sysupgrade ... you will love it :)
>>
>> with this tool you can upgrade os to latest snapshot without any problem
>> over ssh :)
>>
> This is cool.
>
> Due to space and speed restrictions (compact flash card) and to reduce
> downtime I would like to avoid the games and the Xwindow "balast" on my
> gateways. Does sysupgrade recognize the tar balls that are already
> installed, or does it become a "sysinstall" in this case?
Iif I remember correctly it doesn't. Someone solved this by removing
the unnecessary tarballs from the _sysupgrade folder and performed the
upgrade after it.
>
> Sorry for asking, but the man page https://man.openbsd.org/sysupgrade
> doesn't tell.
>
>
> Thanx in advance
> Harri
>
>

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