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Forgall
Oct 16, 2012

by Azathoth
I'm trying to learn a bit about BSD, so I've started looking into OpenBSD installation options. As far as I understand, they provide installer for release version, daily build of current branch, but no installer for stable branch. So if I want an iso with stable version I have to build the system from source? I'm a bit confused by the logic here.

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Forgall
Oct 16, 2012

by Azathoth

Volguus posted:

They provide full system install ISO for quite a while now. Go to https://ftp.spline.de/pub/OpenBSD/6.0/amd64/ and grab install60.iso if you want the iso or install60.fs if you want to write it to an USB. Then just boot with the media and the installation process will start.
For full mirror list see http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html .
Yes, but that's the release version from July of last year. It doesn't have those 19 patches applied.

Forgall
Oct 16, 2012

by Azathoth

An Enormous Boner posted:

Yep. Install 6.0 and rebuild the system. It sounds like a lot but it doesn't take very long and it's easy: https://www.openbsd.org/stable.html
I'd give it a try. Ideally I'd like to have fully automated build process in a VM creating an iso which can be booted from to autoinstall the patched system and software I want. Seems to be possible from what I've read.
Can I skip building Xenocara and bundling it into the iso if I don't need desktop environment?

Forgall fucked around with this message at 11:13 on Mar 19, 2017

Forgall
Oct 16, 2012

by Azathoth
What's the proper OpenBSD way to set up a daemon that auto-restarts on crash? I was assuming rc would be in charge of that, but apparently not?

Forgall
Oct 16, 2012

by Azathoth

An Enormous Boner posted:

Do the devs expect "rcctl check $service || rcctl restart $service" cron jobs or something?
You know, this seems perfectly adequate for my needs.

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Forgall
Oct 16, 2012

by Azathoth
I've made a site61.tgz set and uploaded it (and index.txt file) to amazon s3 bucket. When installing OpenBSD, it complains that it can't connect over https. Http fallback works, but obviously it's not a good solution. What could be the problem and where do I start troubleshooting it?

Looks like s3 is using certificate from Symantec, which I heard were involved in some controversy. Did OpenBSD devs just purge them from trusted root or something?

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