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> The problem is that installing a release from sets is an annoying 
> process.  You have to zap all the things that a full installation 
> needs but you already have (i.e., root's crontab), and take the usual 
> care with /etc.  etcupdate is a big step forward, but I'm still not at 
> all satisifed with the ease of upgrading.  (Note:  this isn't to say 
> that tar-ing DESTDIR on top of the running system is easier -- it's the 
> same set of problems.  But I wish there were an easier way to keep 
> -current.)

I find 

# rsync -avH --delete --delete-after --exclude-from=... $DESTDIR/. /.

works very well for me.  I run it once first with -n to see what
it would do, and then again without if I'm happy.  

--delete-after stops it deleting old shlibs before installing new
ones, otherwise you could run it a third time with the --delete.
Note that we recently bumped libutil, which means i needed to
rebuild X as well as the normal DESTDIR.

The --exclude-from file lists a few things in /etc that I want to
keep, but not the whole dir. I posted my then-current copy a while
back, here's a slightly more recent one. Beware it will nuke files
you modify but i don't.

However, it does mean I can't use UNPRIVED builds.

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Dan.



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/altroot
/boot
/cdrom
/crypt
/dev
/dos
/emul
/etc/*.conf
/etc/ifconfig.*
/etc/apm
/etc/cgd
/etc/ifaliases
/etc/dumpdates
/etc/fstab
/etc/group
/etc/hosts
/etc/localtime
/etc/mail
/etc/master.passwd
/etc/motd
/etc/namedb
/etc/networks
/etc/passwd
/etc/pwd.db
/etc/rc.local
/etc/shells
/etc/spwd.db
/etc/ssh
/etc/ttys
/etc/XF86Config
/etc/ppp
/etc/racoon
/fs
/home
/kern
/mnt
/mnt2
/netbsd*
/nt
/proc
/root
/tftpboot
/tmp
/usr/home
/usr/local
/usr/pkg
/usr/src
/usr/pkgsrc
/usr/X11R6
/var
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