Hello dear OpenBSD friends. I have just upgraded my 3.8 release CD install trough CVS to the stable branch (OPENBSD_3_8)( src, ports and XF4). I have rebuilt my kernel, the userland and X Window. Everything runs fine and smoothly as expected. I also removed the installed packages and I am reinstalling them again trough ports.
A question arises now to me: as I have read on the FAQ, everything must be kept "in sync". Is it mandatory to remove the packages and reinstall them again from ports when I upgrade the base system to the STABLE branch?. Or perhaps, can I "asume" that the STABLE patch branch does not modify the base system enough to break the ports? This is a very time consuming task as my computer has got a slow Internet connection (5kB/s) and a not too fast processor (1200 MHz). A friend of mine downloaded for me all 3.8 packages from OpenBSD servers and perhaps I have to discard them from now. :-( Thank you very much in advance for your help and for this amazing OS. Ramiro.
