Thursday, August 01, 2019

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

Use the -n option to sysupgrade to not reboot after files are downloaded and verified. Then delete the unwanted tarballs as mentioned from /home/_sysupgrade/ and reboot.

See sysupgrade(8): https://man.openbsd.org/sysupgrade

> On Aug 1, 2019, at 7:31 AM, Antal Ispanovity <weanti@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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