Re: Upgrading from 10.0 to 10.1

[Ted Spradley <tsprad%talent-free-studios.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2025 21:52:15 +0100
Liam Proven <lproven%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> I thought that one of the core advantages and "selling points" of the 
> BSDs  was that each is a complete OS developed by the same team -- as 
> opposed to a Linux distro which isn't so much a piece of software as 
> 30,000 pieces all flying in _extremely_ close formation.

This is a good point and it argues that sysupgrade ought to be a part
of the system, not pkgsrc.

Each of us old hands has our own way of doing this, and of explaining
it to newbies. There are only two tricky bits to 'sysupgrade auto': The
configuration file specifies where to get what version (you have to fix
that before you start) and then near the end, the merging of local
changes into /etc/. If sysupgrade was included in each release it could
default to the "natural" next release, and auto should be the default.


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Ted Spradley <tsprad%talent-free-studios.com@localhost>