[ On Tuesday, June 26, 2001 at 20:27:19 (-0500), Frederick Bruckman wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Upgrading NetBSD?
>
> Speaking of "defaults for years", sysinstall supports upgrades now. In
> addition to all of the above, it will move your old "/etc" to
> "/etc.old", install the new "/etc", and delete any obsolete files
> (binaries that have changed location &c). It's fairly painless if you
> can get the sets over ftp, or nfs, or if you can put them on a
> seperate partition.

It sure would be nice if those procedures were implemented separately,
eg. as a nice little shell script, so that those of us who don't want to
use sysinstall can still at least read the procedcure, if not even use
it, separately.

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