Re: sysupgrade

[Jason Bacon <bacon4000%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 05/21/17 18:39, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 05:04:19PM -0500, Jason Bacon wrote:
> > Is sysutils/sysupgrade still supported?  It looks like the package hasn't
> > been upgraded in a few years, although it's recommended here:
> >
> >      https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-upgrading.html
> Yes, it should still work.
>
> > Trying to run this:
> >
> >      sysupgrade auto 'ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.1/amd64'
> >
> > Ends in this:
> >
> >      sysupgrade: E: Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.1/amd64/binary/kernel/netbsd-AUTOUPDATE.gz
> It looks like sysupgrade tried to automatically discover your kernel
> config name, and determined it to be "AUTOUPDATE".  Is that correct?
> You can run "config -x | head -1" to see.  You can explicitly set
> the kernel to use as part of the auto-update with:
>
> 	sysupgrade -o KERNEL=GENERIC auto <releasedir>
Correct you are.  I was able to work around this by simply using "-o 
KERNEL=GENERIC".  I had forgotten that I chose a different name for the 
kernel when installing some patches a while back and assumed 
netbsd-AUTOUPDATE.gz was some sort of tool sysupgrade wanted.

Thanks for the pointer.

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