Re: updating remote 2.5 to current

[William Allen Simpson <wsimpson_(_at_)_greendragon_(_dot_)_com>]

Last month, I asked about updating 3.5 remotely, and was advised by several 
people to wait for the official 2.6 release.  Also, I had two folks tell me 
it was possible by carefully creating a new etc, and then untarring the 
distribution on top of the existing.

Well, I spent several hours cataloging the etc differences between 2.5 and 2.6, 
at least as seen on my machine.  I'm a bit nervous about 2 things:

1) hostname.ep0 was automatically generated during 2.5 install, but now the 
new netstart seems to do things differently, and the comments reference a 
non-existant man page for hostname.if*.  What's up?

2) sshd_config has major changes, and doesn't seem to reference ssh_host_key
anymore.  What else do I need to know?

Since the whole point is that network interfaces have to come back after 
the reboot, and ssh is the only allowed access, these two have to work! 
Any thoughts?

Here are my notes on the files I found changed:

==missing==
adduser.*
disklabels/         was empty in 2.5
fstab               (cp -p)
group.bak           unchanged from 2.5 and 2.6 group
host.random         (cp -p)
hostname.ep0        (cp -p)
mygate              (cp -p)
resolv.conf         (cp -p)
ssh_host_key        ?
ssh_host_key.pub    ?
ssh_random_seed     ?
termcap@

==added==
rc.shutdown

==changed size==
changelist          many additions
disktab             floppy288
fbtab               comment
hosts               new header (update with correct names)
inetd.conf          ftp, telnet, login, default off! (good)
magic               SIDtunes added, but no version change?
man.conf            cat3p?
netstart            major change to hostname.xxx, but no man page.
newsyslog.conf      no kerberos.log
passwd.conf         comment
printcap            #rp|remote line printer
rc                  many changes
rc.conf             comments
rc.local            no sshd, add netatalk
security            debugging
services            imap, hunt
ssh_config          minor changes
sshd_config         major changes
sysctl.conf         IPsec not on by default?
weekly              minor changes

==local==
dhcpd.conf
group               (mv group group.bak;cp -p)
localtime           (cp -R)
master.passwd       (cp -p)
motd                leave until next compile?
myname              (cp -p)
passwd              (cp -p)
photuris/
pwd.db              ?
shells              bash
spwd.db             ?

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