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 -- 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.
