Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost> writes: > On 09.10.2015 08:18, Ottavio Caruso wrote: >> On 8 October 2015 at 23:00, Soren Jacobsen <snj%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote: >>> The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 7.0, the >>> fifteenth major release of the NetBSD operating system. >> >> Hurrah! >> >> I have NetBSD 7_rc3. Should I bother upgrading? >> > It de[ends of the use-case. You should upgrade if you care about > pkgsrc packages. You can diff the sources, but probably the biggest benefit is to not have warnings about version mismatches. Very little changed in the final days. >> Can I just install the security updates? >> >> What is the best way to upgrade? Clean reinstall, sysinst or >> sysutils/sysupgrade? > > Lately I found sysupgrade and it works great. There is also INSTALL-NetBSD in pkgsrc/sysutils/etcmanage. It's much older than sysupgrade, and AFAIK does pretty much the same thing in terms of binaries. It also deals with updating /etc files in a way that's a little harder to set up but then is much more automatic.
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