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#upgrading

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Once you have installed #OpenBSD, updates and upgrades mainly involve running

$ doas syspatch

and

$ doas pkg_add -u

to update any packages.

$ doas sysupgrade

for the next release.

Some background on how things work:

Keeping Your OpenBSD System In Trim: A Works For Me Guide nxdomain.no/~peter/keeping_you (also prettified and G-tracked as bsdly.blogspot.com/2012/07/kee)
You've Installed It. Now What? Packages! nxdomain.no/~peter/youve_insta (prettified, G-tracked bsdly.blogspot.com/2013/04/you)
#sysadmin #upgrading

nxdomain.noKeeping Your OpenBSD System In Trim: A Works For Me Guide

Before #upgrading #freebsd to #12.1-release
1. Ensure you have installed the 12.1-release kernel source code
2. Ensure you have the #ports collection installed
3. Disable the I915kms in rc.conf
Now update to 12.1 binary release
Reboot three times
Uninstall the #drm-kmod driver
Reboot
Install `graphics/drm-fbsd12.0-kmod` from the ports collection
re-enable I915kms in rc.conf
Reboot