Re: Following current - pkg_add update forward depedencies don't match question

On 2019/11/02 05:04, Chris Bennett wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 09:24:05AM -0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2019-11-01, Chris Bennett <cpb_misc@bennettconstruction.us> wrote:
> > > NO. You need to use pkg_add -u -Dsnap.
> >
> > Normally when pkg_add doesn't have a full path to the package directory
> > (e.g. PKG_PATH=http://mirror/pub/OpenBSD/6.6/packages/amd64/)
> > it constructs it from a hostname in PKG_PATH or a partial path in
> > /etc/installurl. To do that it has to add e.g. 6.6/packages/amd64
> > to the partial path.
> >
> > It decides whether to use 6.6/ (or other version number) or snapshots/
> > based on whether the current version is a snapshot or not (from the
> > "sysctl kern.version" output).
> >
> > All that -Dsnap does is say "use snapshots/ even if this looks like
> > it's a release (no suffix after "6.6"). You only ever need it if you're
> > a) running snapshota and b) are in the brief period in the run-up to
> > release where the version number has no suffix.
> >
> > > Occasionally you might need to use sysupgrade -s. That happened to me
> > > from one -current to another.
> >
> > sysupgrade -s is sysupgrade's equivalent to pkg_add -Dsnap. So again you
> > would only ever need it directly in the run-up to release.
> >
> >
>
> This happened to me with a snapshot from before -release and getting a
> snapshot right after -release. Perhaps this should be mentioned in man
> sysupgrade(8)? The error message ftp something was not intuitive.
> sysupgrade -s is logical and reasonable, but wasn't at all obvious from
> the error message. I have had the same error message when a connection
> was a problem.
> In any case, I was able to fix the problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Bennett
>
>

The error message is better now (post-6.6) though there is still some
room for improvement (can't currently move from "6.6-beta" to "6.6" via
sysupgrade without hacking the script slightly).

Getting the amount of documentation right is a bit of a balancing act,
it could be written in more explicit detail, but it makes the doc more
complex for something which is only needed over a ~10 day period.