Contributed by rueda on from the dumber-is-smarter dept.
There has been a significant
change
to the behaviour of
sysupgrade(8):
CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: florian@cvs.openbsd.org 2024/09/24 01:33:35 Modified files: usr.sbin/sysupgrade: sysupgrade.8 sysupgrade.sh Log message: Remove -r toggle and generally be less smart. The default is to install the next release. Snapshots are only installed when invoked with -s.
The logic on what to do per default got out of hand and it was very difficult to reason about what sysupgrade(8) actually did. deraadt@ then suggested that we should dumb it all down, sysupgrade(8) is there to upgrade from one release to the next. More advance usage needs to be requested by the user. With all this simplification we can now be a bit more smart to work out what the next release is. With that, snapshots right before a release can be sysupgrade(8)'ed to the official release. OK sthen on a previous version that was much more complicated but allowed shortly-before-release -> release upgrade testing sthen on this version Guidance, prodding & OK deraadt
Updated: There's now also a new option
-R [version]
for (attempting) upgrading to a specific release version:
Upgrade to a specific release version. Only upgrades from one version to the next are tested. Skipping versions may work. Downgrading is unlikely to work.