Re: Updating to OPENBSD_3_5 Patch Branch

[Brad <brad@comstyle.com>]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 04:19:33PM -0500, Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido wrote:
> On (02/08/2004 08:21), Matthew Currington wrote:
> > Hello, I've just installed OpenBSD 3.5 and I want to update to the 3.5
> > patch branch. In the Upgrading Mini-FAQ I am told a bunch of commands
> > to run and a few other things. I am told that I have to update my /etc
> > by hand. Although I believe that the Upgrading Mini-FAQ is for
> > upgrading from releases like 2.6 to to 2.7, but I may be wrong.
> > 
> > I came across the OpenBSD Patch Branches website (
> > http://www.openbsd.org/stable.html ). The difference between this
> > guide and the Upgrading Mini-FAQ, is that It doesn't tell me to
> > uprgade my /etc/. So I'm rather confused here and I'm wondering if
> > someone could fill me in on what exactly I should be doing.
> 
> 
> You modify /etc by hand when moving from release to release (upgrade). If you
> are moving from -release to -stable you generally don't need to touch /etc
> 
> > 
> > If upgrading the /etc is the case, is there much work involved and if
> > so, isn't there a tool to automate the proccess?
> 
> I've been told about mergemaster, but I've never used it.

mergemaster makes this task extrmely easy and cuts down the time of an
upgrade by quite a bit over doing it manually.

// Brad