On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 07:41:31AM +0000, Bogdan Andu wrote:
> Thank you for detailed explanations.
> In conclusion is safer to follow -current, 
> But if I am using a April 1st snapshot, for example I cannot use 
> 5.7 -stable channel to update the tree so I must update the April 1st 
> snapshot to current snapshotin May 1st?
> How it is possible to know when to update my current tree of April 1st to 
> last known -current 5.7, exactly before this becomes 5.8 alfa?

You seem a bit confused about the dates involved (see [1] for a blog post of 
mine which
may or may not help make things clearer).

if you read up on CVS, you may discover a way to check out code equal to the 
-release
version or matching a specific point in time. That would give you a set of 
(hopefully
consistent and buildable) source files, and applying the same tricks to the 
ports tree
will yield similar results - a set of source files and patches you can build.

For a prebuilt, installable system with matching packages, you need to either go
from snapshot to snapshot (making the dive into -current if you want) or follow 
the -release to -stable path.

- P

[1] http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-to-expect-in-openbsd-50-onwards.html
 
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