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Re: system updates





Den ons 24 juli 2024 kl 07:57 skrev Will Senn <will.senn%gmail.com@localhost>:
Hi,

NetBSD newb here. I know FreeBSD well, a bit about OpenBSD, and lots about Linux. My question is after installing, how do I check for updates to the system itself and get them installed (security updates, kernel updates, etc)... or is this not a thing with NetBSD? I figure packages are updatable via the pkg management tools (pkg_add/pkgsrc) doing my research on this as we speak.

Help appreciated and if there's a common set of procedures folks follow, that'd be good to know, too... in freebsd: freebsd_update fetch install for system updates, pkg update && pkg upgrade for packages and mint: apt update && apt upgrade for the same sorts of updates... that kind of thing.


You can either use sysinst or, sysupgrade.

To use sysinst, fetch a new image from (assuming NetBSD-10) http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-10/ and use the upgrade option from the installer.
Or, install sysutils/sysupgrade and use it to upgrade the system.

See, chapter 4 of the guide, https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-upgrading.html



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