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More better docs, and get ready for mergeslave to work.  It SHOULD work, it just needs testing.

This is a collection of scripts to make upgrading OpenBSD easier.  It
supports upgrading to a new version as well as just upgrading to a newer
version of the same release.

The proper way use these scripts would be to do the following:
	get_sets
	install_kernel
	reboot
	install_sets
	upgrade /etc.  I still need to test mergeslave to see how that works.

The files in the collection you should use are as follows:

get_sets
        This downloads the latest kernels and sets from mp3s.hewus.com.
        It uses installed_sets to only download the kernels and sets
        that are currently installed on the box you are running it on.

install_kernel
        Copies the new kernels from the file set above.  Should only be
        run AFTER running get_sets.  You should reboot after running
        this

install_sets
        Extracts the new sets to the correct directories.  Most of them
        to /, but it extracts etc??.tgz to /tmp.  You should upgrade
        /etc after you have run this, as well as upgrading packages with
        pkg_add -ui then reboot.

mergeslave
        This is a modified version of mergeslave.  You should only use
        it if upgrading between versions, not -stable upgrades.
	http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/OpenBSD-binary-upgrade/

installed_sets
        This is a helper script that returns a list of the sets that are
        currently installed on the box you are running it on.


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