Manpages for sysbuild etc

bsd17

Trying to update to 9.2 and sysbuild sysinstall commands cannot be found nor are the manpages on my system for them.

neubaer

bsd17 sysbuild is a pkgsrc package (in sysutils) and "sysinstall" is actually called sysinst and should be in /usr/sbin/sysinst
Can you specify how you're planning to upgrade the system - e.g. building your own from sources, pre-built binary sets, etc. ?
Depending on that, there might be an easier solution, like sysupgrade which I like very much (also a pkgsrc package).

bsd17

I was just gonna do the simplest form.

# sysbuild build
# sysupgrade auto ~/sysbuild/release/$(uname -m)

How do I install these packages. Is it not as simple as pkg_add sysbuild?

neubaer

bsd17 Yes, pkg_add should suffice. You can also use pkgin which is a much nicer package manager, if it's installed.
If you don't care about building from sources, you can skip sysbuild and just do sysupgrade auto, which will download and install pre-built binary sets - no compiling necessary.

EDIT: A word of warning. If you're upgrading within a major release (e.g. 9.1 -> 9.2) then sysupgrade auto is fine. However if you're upgrading major releases (e.g. 8 -> 9) or CURRENT, then you have to first upgrade the kernel, reboot, and then extract the userland sets.

bsd17

neubaer
I found this

# PKG_PATH="http://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/$(uname -p)/$(uname -r|cut -f '1 2' -d.)/All/"
# export PKG_PATH
# pkg_add pkgin
# pkg_add: Cant process file.....

bsd17

I'm missing a big piece of this installing packages thing. I'm assuming the command has to have the path of the pkg in it since pkg_add sysbuild, sysupgrade, or pkgin doesn't work. "The sysbuild and sysupgrade tools (currently available in pkgsrc/sysutils/sysbuild and pkgsrc/sysutils/sysupgrade respectively)"
But "pkg_add pkgsrc/sysutils/sysbuild" doesn't work either.

neubaer

bsd17 You can try specifying the URL literally, without the shell expansions. For example, my the PKG_PATH would be "http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/9.2/All/".

bsd17

neubaer I did that and checked all the characters and the output is "pkg_add: no pkg found for 'pkgin' , sorry."

bsd17

I did that and checked all the characters and the output is "pkg_add: no pkg found for 'pkgin' , sorry."

Jay

bsd17 can you try

pkg_add http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/9.2/All/pkgin-20.12.1nb1.tgz

bsd17

Jay pkg_add: cant process, pkg_add: no pkg found for, pkg_add: 1 package addition failed

Jay

Also can you ping google.com ?

bsd17

Jay ping works

Jay

bsd17 can you try with sysinst ?