ReUpgrade + Git-enabled flashrd =============================== I use this set of scripts, based on git and flashrd, to manage both configuration and upgrades of ours (vjt ++ nhaima) lovely embedded OpenBSD gateway, running onto a Soekris net4801. Documentation is yet to be written, but the general picture is to prepare an image using a modified flashrd that handles .git repositories and keep into them the whole configuration.. into separate branches. You should have an "upstream/4.X" version, upon which you base your configuration, say, "brahma/4.X". When an upgrade occurs, you simply revert your configuration to the upstream one via a git checkout, untar the distribution packages and commit every change. Then you checkout back your configuration into a shiny new branch and rebase it onto the new upstream configuration. This whole stuff is handled by rebase.sh.. while all the other scripts serve syncing and finalization. I plan on writing a comprehensive tutorial once this system is solid and battle-tested: for now you have all the code :-) and the commit message 096ed3a193bfc615bbd103d0db278e681aaca3f8 to get started. Please note that I plan to do "hot" upgrades thus without requiring to copy the embedded machine directory trees back and forth to another OpenBSD machine. Have fun, and stay tuned! :-) - vjt@openssl.it Sun Jan 3 18:51:37 CET 2010