Re: Upgrade or reinstall?

[Jacob Meuser <jakemsr@clipper.net>]

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:29:36PM -0600, Curtis Collicutt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm just wondering if anyone has any advice to hand out
> regarding whether or not the upgrade option during
> the OpenBSD install is effective or if I should just
> reinstall everything. I would like to spend less time
> redoing my network... 
>
Yes, it works.  I updated a couple machines already. (Hey, a patch
was distributed already.  Would it not be that the tree in the 
moments before the patch would be 2_9-release ?)
Anyway, two machines, one from 2_8-release, and one from 2_8-stable.
No problems.  You still have to update you configs by hand.  Well,
I don't like mergemaster, but that is an option.

> I have an network of about 10 machines running OpenBSD doing
> all of the typical public network things, dns, mail,
> www, firewall, ect, and I would like to save time moving 
> to 2.9.
> 
It's probably faster to update than reinstall, unless you're
making changes that necessitate reinstallation, like changing
the size of /.

<jakemsr@clipper.net>