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