From: Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au>
Subject: Re: Syntax errors in 7.8 -> 7.9 upgrade instruction
To: Anton Hvornum <torxed@archlinux.org>
Cc: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:56:20 +1000

On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 01:31:39PM +0200, Anton Hvornum wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I posted to bugs@ earlier, but just found that diffs can be sent here, so
> I'm shooting my shot in attempt to patch
> https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade79.html by doing:
> 
> diff --git a/faq/upgrade79.html b/faq/upgrade79.html
> index 4f5e4cc91..9b2055a7a 100644
> --- a/faq/upgrade79.html
> +++ b/faq/upgrade79.html
> @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ unattended or interactive upgrade process is not
> possible.
> 
>    <pre class="cmdbox">
>    # cd /etc
> -  # ifconfig trunk0 | awk '/lladdr/ { print "lladdr $2" } > hostname.aggr0
> +  # ifconfig trunk0 | awk '/lladdr/ { print "lladdr " $2 }' >
> hostname.aggr0

or perhaps just
# ifconfig trunk0 | awk '/lladdr/ { print $1, $2 }' > hostname.aggr0

>    # cat hostname.trunk0 >> hostname.aggr0
>    # echo up >> hostname.aggr0
>    # rm hostname.trunk0<!--
> 
> 
> This should fix two syntax errors in the `awk` example.
> 
> Have a great day,
> //Anton "Torxed" Hvornum
> 
>