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title = 'OpenBSD-current' summary = 'Keeping up to date with OpenBSD-current. Some quick notes.' date = '2023-08-11T19:47:56+0000' lastmod = '2023-08-19T21:30:15+0000' categories = [ 'amateur-radio', 'computerstuff' ] tags = [ 'openbsd' ]
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[Initially]({{< ref "2023-07-29-going-back-from-openbsd-snapshot/index.md" >}}) I wanted to not look at OpenBSD-current again but I did it again.
All went good this time and I could compile everything except the ports. I'm still looking to find a good solution to update all the packages in one run.
I'm still studying ports(7) and going to learn about bulk(8) and dpb(1).
What went wrong the last time
I have no clue. The last time I had problems with the recent snapshot, when the packages could not get updated properly. This time they updated just fine. So maybe this was only an issue with that particular snapshot back then. Maybe, IDK.
Fetch the actual sources
The user is member of wsrc.
$ cd /usr/src
$ cvs -q up -Pd -A
Initially we fetched the source with
$ cd /usr
$ cvs -qd anoncvs@ftp.hostserver.de:/cvs checkout -P src
Same with xenocara
and ports
.
Create the kernel
$ cd /sys/arch/$(machine)/compile/GENERIC.MP
$ doas make obj
$ doas make config
$ doas make && doas make install
Is this really needed done as root (except install)? Current kernel gets copied to /obsd and new kernel is /bsd.
Reboot with the new kernel.
Build base system
$ cd /usr/src
$ doas make obj && doas make build
$ doas sysmerge
$ cd /dev && doas ./MAKEDEV all
My Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen7 finishes this step in ~ 12 hours usually.
Build and install Xenocara (X)
$ cd /src/xenocara
$ doas make bootstrap
$ doas make obj
$ doas make build
Building Xenocara took on my laptop (see above) around 1.5 hours.
Reboot
Once we built our new system, we want to boot into it.
Upgrading the ports
I do have a packagelist of the manually installed packages in my home folder. That looks something like this:
ImageMagick--
abook--
adb--
adwaita-icon-theme--
aircrack-ng--
alacritty--
anacron--
appstream-glib--
[...]
This is of no help to me, so I modified it a bit with sed:
$ sed s/--// packagelist.txt > localports
That removes only the two minuses at the end.
Now I cd
into /usr/ports
and I'm looking if the
resulting category/package name fits the ports directory
structure.
$ for i in `cat ~/localports`; do echo */$i; done | tee localports
Run the command without the | tee ...
part to see if any errors occur.
If the for loop finishes without errors, we can add the tee
part and
write the new localports file into /usr/ports
.
The final file should look like this:
graphics/ImageMagick
mail/abook
devel/adb
security/aircrack-ng
x11/alacritty
sysutils/anacron
devel/appstream-glib
Notice, there is already the package adwaita-icon-theme
misssing
because there is no such port in the ports tree.
Within /usr/ports
, we run dpb
:
$ doas /usr/ports/infrastructure/bin/dpb -P localports
That's it. The screen gets filled with all the ports that are updated at once/in parallel.
Creating a release
There are a few steps needed to create your own installation media.
First of all, we setup some space that we can mount with
noperm
options.
I use an external SSD
which I mount into /build
.
$ doas mount -o noperm /dev/sd2a /build
Set the owner of this directory to build and chmod the directory with 0700. Read along in release(8).
I use four directories: dest
, release
, xdest
and xrelease
.
dist
and xdest
will be used to build the system, while
release
will hold the tarballs and the final installation media files
when in xrelease
the Xenocara release files will land.
{{< alert >}} Have a look at the manpage, permissions and owners are quite important for these tasks! {{< /alert >}}
It is the base system that we create first
$ export DESTDIR=/build/dest RELEASEDIR=/build/release
$ cd /usr/src/etc && doas make release
$ cd /usr/src/distrib/sets && doas sh checkflist
$ unset RELEASEDIR DESTDIR
We continue with building the X release files
$ export DESTDIR=/build/xdest RELEASEDIR=/build/xrelease
$ doas make release
$ doas make checkdist
$ unset RELEASEDIR DESTDIR
Creating the installation media files
$ export RELDIR=/build/release RELXDIR=/build/xrelease
$ cd /usr/src/distrib/$(machine)/iso && doas make
$ doas make install
You'll find your install73.{img,iso}
files in $RELDIR
.