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How do you handle release upgrades?

• notaplumber 8y ago
  For as long as the release is supported you can use syspatch(8). They also appear to provide serial console access on request so you can perform a release upgrade via the recommended bsd.rd (RAMDISK) kernel method. There's also the manual upgrade method, for an example of what that looks like, here's the guide for going from 6.2->6.3: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade63.html#NoInstKern https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade63.html#NoInstKern
  • INTPenis 8y ago
    The key here is console access. I have an OpenBSD router at home and the only negative part is about once every two years when I feel the need to catch up on the latest release. Because then it needs a null modem cable and direct access. So when someone is selling remotely managed OpenBSD VMs my natural question is how to do release upgrade.
    • sedachv 8y ago
      You can do unattended upgrades using autoinstall(8). There is a handy script for patching bsd.rd with a configuration file for the update process: https://bitbucket.org/semarie/upobsd/src https://bitbucket.org/semarie/upobsd/src although there should not be anything to configure on most boxes (maybe you want to deselect the X packages for your router).