Re: updating remote 2.5 to current

[toonces@killhup.cx]

I upgraded my alpha openbsd box from 2.4 to 2.5 remotely, not one problem.
The only downtime was the reboot.  I am schedualing the 2.6 upgrade soon
so I can't say specifically how that will go, but based on my experience
in the past I don't expect any problems. 

I have had much worse experiences upgrading more then a few commercial
unix's, and that was being onsite.

I am very impressed with the work the openbsd group has done, keep up the
excellent operating system guys :)  I think you deserve large kudos for
your OS.

Kellman

On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Thierry Deval wrote:

> 
> On 08-Dec-99 William Allen Simpson wrote:
> >....
> > Noting your domain name, maybe I should be looking harder at MacOS X.  
> > I've heard that they are closely following the OpenBSD changes.  And 
> > ease of use is certainly an Apple hallmark.
> 
> Well, concerning MacOS X, I don't think they have upgradability (and surely not
> remote) right in mind. For what I know, even going from DP1 to DP2 doesn't keep
> full binary compatibility (i.e. DP1 tools won't work in spite of missing DP2
> ones, but that is maybe intended) .
> 
> 
> 
> OTOH, you had bad luck with your experiment, but you can't blame anybody :-(
> Things are getting better, but it takes time (a lot), and there are priorities
> and not too much manpower.
> 
> I'm not sure that the other BSD's are much easier at remote upgrades, nor do I
> think Linux is.
> 
> Thierry
>