Upgrading NetBSD to 10.1
I struggled to upgrade the NetBSD I'm currently running on my RPi (see this article)[ https://www.ncartron.org/netbsd-on-raspberry-pi.html).
When doing
sysupgrade auto https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.1/evbarm-aarch64
I would get
sysupgrade: E: Failed to fetch https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.1/evbarm-aarch64/binary/sets/base.tgz
And indeed, when checking the content of this folder, I could see base.tar.xz
but base.tgz was nowhere to be found.
I asked on Mastodon, and Jay very quickly
answered that I had to
modify /usr/pkg/etc/sysupgrade.conf.
All I had to do was uncomment the # in front of ARCHIVE_EXTENSION, so that it
takes into account tar.xz as extension:
ARCHIVE_EXTENSION=tar.xz
Then upon doing sysupgrade again, it worked!
Nice way to fix conflicts
When upgrading an OS, you may have times where you have modified a file, and this file could be overwritten by the upgrade.
FreeBSD has a mechanism to deal with that, where it shows you the diff with <<<< and >>>>
but I found the way NetBSD handles it a lot better, see below:
It allows you to edit the file and shows you the problematic lines.
Granted, I'm not sure this would work for files with a lot of modifications, but in the above case (/etc/passwd),
this was great!
Tags: FreeBSD