On 2017-09-09, Lukasz Jendrysik <sc...@yandex.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Since the main goal of OpenBSD is security, I keep wondering about one > thing. > There are packages like irssi or Thunderbird that should be updated to > the newest upstream version. > For example irssi's upstream encourages all users to upgrade to the > newest one, see: > https://irssi.org/2017/07/07/irssi-1.0.4-released/ > > Similar situation with Chromium etc. All of those packages exists in > newer versions in -current, but it's not an option in my case. > > I understand that -stable is not place for the latest packages available > and it's expected to be rock solid, but also secure. > So I wonder what is the policy in situation when updating to the newer > upstream version is more than recommended due the security reasons. > > Thanks for clarification, > Lukasz > >
I can't speak about thunderbird, but for irssi if this was just a simple update it would have already gone into the -stable ports tree. If you use any compiled extensions, it's a pain to update irssi from ports on the machine you're running it on, because you would need to uninstall the extensions (because the extension binaries are tied to the irssi version, and packages enforces this), update irssi, then reinstall. Instructions for doing this aren't something that can be encoded into the ports tree. If you're ok with doing that, you can probably handle backporting the version update yourself to 6.1-stable ports too. If not then following -current snapshots is by far the easiest way to get up-to-date packages. In any event, whether you're running 1.0.4 or 0.8.21, I encourage running it (and other software where it makes sense) as a separate user account. Unlike X-based software it's easy to do. I created a "s_irssi" user, added "permit nopass $myuser as s_irssi" to doas.conf, and created a shell alias: alias irssi='env HOME=~s_irssi doas -u s_irssi /usr/local/bin/irssi' Place config files in ~s_irssi/.irssi and set ownership/permissions as appropriate.
