NetBSD Binary OS Updates

I discovered a system running NetBSD 2.0 in my lab and decided to upgrade it to NetBSD 2.0.2. I read that "this is also the first binary security/critical update since NetBSD 2.0." I found a thread which gave various forms of advice on updating to NetBSD 2.0.2 from 2.0. Here is what I did.

When I started the system was running NetBSD 2.0.

bash-2.05b# uname -a
NetBSD juneau.taosecurity.com 2.0 NetBSD 2.0 (GENERIC) #0:
 Wed Dec  1 10:58:25 UTC 2004  builds@build:/big/builds/ab/netbsd-2-0-RELEASE/
 i386/200411300000Z-obj/big/builds/ab/
 netbsd-2-0-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386

First I downloaded base.tgz, comp.tgz, kern-GENERIC.tgz, man.tgz, misc.tgz, and text.tgz into a directory I created called /usr/tmp. The FTP server directory listing shows what was available in total.

juneau# ftp ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-2.0.2/i386/binary/sets/
Trying 204.152.190.13...
Connected to ftp.netbsd.org.
...edited...
ftp> ls
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||51263|)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
total 227868
-rw-r--r--  1 srcmastr  netbsd       444 Mar 30 06:10 BSDSUM
-rw-r--r--  1 srcmastr  netbsd       581 Mar 30 06:10 CKSUM
-rw-r--r--  1 srcmastr  netbsd       987 Mar 30 06:10 MD5
-rw-r--r--  1 srcmastr  netbsd       448 Mar 30 06:10 SYSVSUM
-rw-r--r--  1 srcmastr  netbsd  18047923 Mar 23 09:24 base.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 srcmastr  netbsd  21308430 Mar 23 09:25 comp.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 srcmastr  netbsd    168642 Mar 23 09:23 etc.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 srcmastr  netbsd   3036879 Mar 23 09:23 games.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 srcmastr  netbsd   3565556 Mar 23 09:20 kern-GENERIC.MP.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 srcmastr  netbsd   3526224 Mar 23 09:20 kern-GENERIC.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 srcmastr  netbsd   3557989 Mar 23 09:20 kern-GENERIC_DIAGNOSTIC.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 srcmastr  netbsd   2632995 Mar 23 09:20 kern-GENERIC_LAPTOP.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 srcmastr  netbsd    859230 Mar 23 09:20 kern-GENERIC_PS2TINY.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 srcmastr  netbsd    822571 Mar 23 09:20 kern-GENERIC_TINY.tgz
lrwxrwxrwx  1 1237      netbsd        27 Apr  6 17:13 man.tgz -> 
 ../../../shared/ALL/man.tgz
lrwxrwxrwx  1 1237      netbsd        28 Apr  6 17:13 misc.tgz -> 
 ../../../shared/ALL/misc.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 srcmastr  netbsd   1982544 Mar 23 09:23 text.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 srcmastr  netbsd   5787182 Mar 23 09:24 xbase.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 srcmastr  netbsd  10732131 Mar 23 09:24 xcomp.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 srcmastr  netbsd     32342 Mar 23 09:24 xetc.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 srcmastr  netbsd  32171614 Mar 23 09:25 xfont.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 srcmastr  netbsd   8053884 Mar 23 09:25 xserver.tgz

Next I switched to a bash shell and ran the following:

juneau# ls *.tgz
base.tgz            kern-GENERIC.tgz    misc.tgz
comp.tgz            man.tgz             text.tgz
juneau# bash
bash-2.05b# for i in *.tgz; do tar -xpvzf $i -C /; done

This extracted all of the archives. When done, I rebooted the system. Upon reboot, I checked uname output.

NetBSD juneau.taosecurity.com 2.0.2 NetBSD 2.0.2 (GENERIC) #0:
 Wed Mar 23 08:53:42 UTC 2005  
 jmc@faith.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-2-0-2-RELEASE/i386/
 200503220140Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-2-0-2-RELEASE/
 src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386

That's it -- I'm running NetBSD 2.0.2 now.