Congrats to the OpenBSD folks for another mundane upgrade:
$ doas syspatch
$ doas sysupgrade
[reboots, installs, reboots into the new system]
$ doas sysmerge # a couple mail aliases and login.conf entries
$ doas pkg_add -u
and done.
The only mild scare came from the old junker laptop taking forever to rebuild a new kernel. I hoped it hadn't hung or failed to set `apm -L` on the machine, because the fans can't keep up and it will have a thermal panic under high load. But it eventually completed and rebooted just fine into the new 7.8 system.
Time to go upgrade the VPS instances. I'll defer the macppc box until packages are ready, usually in a couple weeks.
