Hi all. I have noticed that the OpenBSD team puts a lot of emphasis on using binary packets rather than building from ports, which I think IMHO is good, but why is it that there is no binary kernel updates, rather than patching the kernel from source?
I am asking this not from a point that we find this difficult, rather in OpenBSD its really easy. But sometimes its very time consuming, and yes there exists binpatch and other solutions, but why isn't there an official OpenBSD way? Last week management decided to go back to using Debian on some of our servers due to them being easy to upgrade including kernel and basesystem upgrades. OpenBSD has really made a cool solution with pkg_add -u, but why not kernel and basesystem binary updates as well? Best and kind regards. Rico
