[nycbug-talk] OpenBSD 4.8 sparc64 vs. 5.0

[Okan Demirmen]

On Tue 2011.11.22 at 19:40 -0500, Richard Thornton wrote:
> Recently I installed 5.0 on an old Sun blade100 and the OS ran fine but
> adding packages always failed with dependency issues.  I reinstalled the
> 4.8 version and adding packages was easy, but it is two years old. Is it
> wise to upgrade to 5.0 later after package issues are resolved by the
> developers?  Also have others encountered such issues with OpenBSD?

I gather you are installing binary packages; if so, what's your
PKG_PATH?  Check to see if that mirror is working and updated; an
updated list is at www.openbsd.org/ftp.html.  Certainly a 5.0 release
with release packages should work.

Cheers,
Okan