On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Robert Connolly <rob...@secondfloor.ca> wrote: > Hello. > > I have heard on IRC that I am running a vulnerable version of Firefox, > despite running 'pkg_add -a -u', on my OpenBSD 5.2 system. The advice I got > was to run snapshots, because OpenBSD does not have the human resources to > maintain packages. I understand this is a problem, but I want to understand > the best way of dealing with this problem. > > Am I expected to run 'pkg_add -a -u -n' daily, and then decide when to > update to a -current snapshot and package tree? I am not being sarcastic... > I have every intention of continuing to run OpenBSD, and I would like to > know the best way of doing it.
On snapshots it's more easy. You do just upgrade from bsd.rd (like regular install), after reboot sysmerge -s -x is your friend, check of current.html in FAQ and pkg_add -ui. Completely binary process which takes about 15 minutes or so. It depends on you how often you will do that if every week, every day, once a month or so. Of course if you will see during install of package some weird messages about libraries or something else then it's good sign of need for update :-) > > Thank you.
