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 It supports upgrading to a new version as well as just upgrading to a newer version of the same release. Now, you can just use "install". If you are moving between versions it will install the new kernel. You then need to reboot, and run it again and it will run mergeslave after extracting available sets. This will mean you are running it on the same version kernel as the available sets and it will install a new kernel (just in case it needs to be updated) and then extract the available sets. The proper way use these scripts manually 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. reboot The files in the collection are as follows: install This calls get_sets if there are no sets, then call install_kernel, then, if the version of the kernel we are booted off is the same as the sets, it installs the sets, and if it was an upgrade between versions (there was an etcXX.tgz from the previous version downloaded) install mergeslave, then it will tell you to reboot. 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. release.sh This is the OpenBSD - Release Building Shell Script from FenderQ.com - Internet Security Solutions http://www.fenderq.com/release.sh Slightly modified to make it do what I want. I run it like this: $ sudo release.sh clean update system release clean $RedRiver: README.TXT,v 1.4 2006/10/13 18:12:23 andrew Exp $