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There is a useful and detailed upgrade guide here: http://openbsd.org/faq/upgrade53.html http://openbsd.org/faq/upgrade53.html The official recommendation is

by cdjk 13y ago

There is a useful and detailed upgrade guide here: http://openbsd.org/faq/upgrade53.html http://openbsd.org/faq/upgrade53.html The official recommendation is to boot the installation kernel and upgrade that way, but I've never had a problem doing a remote upgrade. It's always been entirely painless. One could argue that it's not quite as simple as "apt-get dist-upgrade" but I like it better - the upgrade process is more explicit about not touching your config files. And since it's a BSD, the base system isn't packaged, so I'm not entirely sure how it would work (although FreeBSD does have freebsd-update now, so it's possible).

Scramblejams 13y ago
Thanks for the details. On Linux the upgrade process can be problematic depending on which distro you're using and how wrenching the upgrades are to the various packages you're relying on, but I must admit I've been spoiled by Debian's apt-get dist-upgrade. Good to hear that with a little experience, OpenBSD's upgrade can be similarly stable.