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1.1       andrew      1: This is a collection of scripts to make upgrading OpenBSD easier.  It
                      2: supports upgrading to a new version as well as just upgrading to a newer
                      3: version of the same release.
                      4:
1.3       andrew      5: Now, you can just use "install".  If you are moving between versions it
                      6: will install the new kernel and run mergeslave.  You then need to
                      7: reboot, and run it again.  This will mean you are running it on the same
                      8: version kernel as the available sets and it will install a new kernel
                      9: (just in case it needs to be updated) and then extract the available sets.
                     10:
                     11: The proper way use these scripts manually would be to do the following:
1.2       andrew     12:        get_sets
                     13:        install_kernel
                     14:        reboot
                     15:        install_sets
                     16:        upgrade /etc.  I still need to test mergeslave to see how that works.
1.3       andrew     17:        reboot
                     18:
1.1       andrew     19:
                     20: The files in the collection you should use are as follows:
                     21:
                     22: get_sets
                     23:         This downloads the latest kernels and sets from mp3s.hewus.com.
                     24:         It uses installed_sets to only download the kernels and sets
                     25:         that are currently installed on the box you are running it on.
                     26:
1.3       andrew     27: install
                     28:        This calls get_sets if there are no sets, then call install_kernel,
                     29:        then, if the version of the kernel we are booted off is the same as
                     30:        the sets, it installs the sets.
                     31:
1.1       andrew     32: install_kernel
                     33:         Copies the new kernels from the file set above.  Should only be
                     34:         run AFTER running get_sets.  You should reboot after running
                     35:         this
                     36:
                     37: install_sets
                     38:         Extracts the new sets to the correct directories.  Most of them
                     39:         to /, but it extracts etc??.tgz to /tmp.  You should upgrade
                     40:         /etc after you have run this, as well as upgrading packages with
                     41:         pkg_add -ui then reboot.
                     42:
1.2       andrew     43: mergeslave
                     44:         This is a modified version of mergeslave.  You should only use
                     45:         it if upgrading between versions, not -stable upgrades.
                     46:        http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/OpenBSD-binary-upgrade/
                     47:
1.1       andrew     48: installed_sets
                     49:         This is a helper script that returns a list of the sets that are
                     50:         currently installed on the box you are running it on.
                     51:
1.4     ! andrew     52: release.sh
        !            53:        This is the OpenBSD - Release Building Shell Script
        !            54:        from FenderQ.com - Internet Security Solutions
        !            55:        http://www.fenderq.com/release.sh
1.1       andrew     56:
1.4     ! andrew     57:        Slightly modified to make it do what I want.
        !            58:
        !            59:        I run it like this:
        !            60:        $ sudo release.sh clean update system release clean
        !            61:
        !            62: $RedRiver: README.TXT,v 1.3 2006/10/11 17:51:54 andrew Exp $