Re: Upgrading from 10.0 to 10.1

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost> writes:

> El 2/10/25 a las 14:47, Greg Troxel escribió:
>> Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
>> 
>>> Thanks Greg for the detailed explanation. Are NetBSD manual upgrade
>>> procedure steps documented somewhere? Just to not forget anything and
>>> break the system. I think I have seen them somewhere but I do not find
>>> it now. I would like to experiment the manual way just for fun in a VM
>>> to learn.
>> https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-upgrading.html
>
> Thanks, but it only explains the sysinst and sysupgrade methods, not
> the fully manual method.

In that case I suggest you install sysutils/etcmanage and read all the
installed scripts carefully.  They are commented with the intent to be
understandable.

But really the manual method is just

  unpack new kernel and modules
  reboot
  unpack rest of sets except etc/xetc
  unpack etc/xetc someplace else
  manually merge the new etc/xetc into your etc
  reboot again

where manually merge could be
  - "diff -ur"
  - think about each diff, and
    + decide to keep it
    + decide to reduce diff to new sets by applying delta to etc