On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 07:29:09AM +0000, Bogdan Andu wrote: > I would like to put in production an OpenBSD server but I have no time to > wait until May 1stso I have to either use 5.6 -stable or to follow -current. > > My question is: > > I would like to install 5.7 -current from freeze point which becomes 5.7 > -release,but I don't know how to install exactly that version. > > Please anybody can explain this to me?
First, please read http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Flavors Second, and I think this question turns up often enough that I might take the time to write it up for FAQ inclusion: There is a short period during every development cycle when the snapshots identify themselves with pure version numbers, such as "OpenBSD 5.7", without -current, -beta or other suffixes. At some point during that period, you may be able to download a snapshot that is very similar to what ends up on the release CDs and in the release download directories on the release day. However, the exact moment the release is built and sent off to production is never revealed to the public, except perhaps as the file timestamps on the release CDs and in the download directories when they become available. There is no guarantee that any downloadable snapshot is ever exactly like the release, and the only way you'll know that a release has indeed been cut is to watch the version string turn into -current again in the most recently available snapshot. By the time you read this that particular window of opportunity may have closed for all I know. If you need specific features that will be in 5.7 but are not in 5.6, you can download a snapshot, which will in turn be superseded soon as development proceeds. If you want 5.7, there is no other option than wait until CD preorders open and be quick about ordering, as far as anybody knows preorders are served on a first come, first served basis. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
