Re: Upgrading NetBSD in-place in a clean way

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:38:24PM +0100, Stefano Marinelli wrote:
> > Using "/usr/sbin/posinstall -s etc.tgz -d / check" will show you what
> > needs to be removed or updated and print out the command to do that.
> 
> Very good, thank you.
> Am I wrong or etcupdate also launches postinstall, after operating
> on config files?

I've never use "etcupdate". I only use "postinstall" and managed to
remotely update a lot systems using this approach, some of them even
multiple times (e.g. 1.6 -> 2.0 -> 2.1 -> 3.0 -> 4.0 -> 5.0 -> 5.1).

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/