On 31 Jan 2016, li...@wrant.com wrote: > Sun, 31 Jan 2016 12:04:50 +0000 Mark Carroll <m...@ixod.org> >> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Release tells me at the end that, >> >> > ... if updating a machine to a new -stable, simply unpack the tar >> > files in the root directory of the target machine. >> >> Am I right to worry that this approach wouldn't include all the patches >> because it won't actually update the kernel itself? > > You should not worry in the first place but pick what is closest to > appropriate for your intended operation cycle. > > What is your goal, to keep a (group of) system(s) running -stable or > -current?
To keep a group of identical systems running -stable. > Building a -release is not the usual way to keep your systems up to > date unless they require installation like process with a different > binaries set than the biannual release cycle optical disks. I thought that one option might be to update my sources to the latest OPENBSD_5_8 revision, build and install the update on one, then make the release on it and copy and unpack it to the other machines so that they could then have the patches too. -- Mark
