On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 07:23:59AM +0200, Jyri Hovila [Turvamies.fi] wrote: > I must ask though: is it really so difficult to at least > try and help people out, instead of lashing them?
As the OP I found the replies to my post helpful. I made a mistake (missed out the release tag on the cvs command when trying to update to -stable) and the replies immediately alerted me to the problem. > Then again: using RELEASE is a huge pain from the > perspective of a server administrator with many [often > virtual] hosts to maintain. The pain is so big that it > actually drove me away from using OpenBSD for almost a > decade. Syspatch and the existence of third-party packagers like m:tier have made it much less painful. Meanwhile, other OS's, eg. Systemd/Linux, have become much more painful (I say this after 20 years of Linux use). John