Yeah, yeah, I never post on this thing. But that's because I rarely have any issues with OpenBSD. I decided to upgrade from 4.0 to 4.1 (yep, I'm still running behind the latest version). I didn't use my etc-update script at all this time, instead I used the mergemaster. It's a very good program, but you have to know what parameters to call it with. I didn't at first and I think I might have done some minor damage to my system, oh well, it won't happen again.
What I did was just calling mergemaster without any parameters or anything. It seems that it generates the stock options and let you chose what to upgrade. That's rather nice behaviour, but it wasn't clear to me at first. So I ended up using de /dev/MAKEDEV it generated. I relised that and copied the MAKEDEV on base41.tgz to /dev, I think I fixed it fine. Well, the system is working, so I guess I didn't do TERRIBLE bad.
Now, for doing it right. All you need is upacking the etc41.tgz to /tmp and then use mergemaster like this:
# mergemaster -rt /tmp
It worked smoothly and now I have a upgraded system :).
Later on I found out that if I had just changed the /usr/src for the openbsd 4.1 src it would work simply typing ``mergemaster''. I guess we only learn by trying, and you guys may learn by my mistakes.
See you in a few months (or years, or decades)
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