On Tue, 20 May 2008, Kendall Shaw wrote:
I'm following -stable until I read some more, and I'm unclear on some
aspects of syncing source.
There was an earlier post about why there are no security patches for
4.3 listed at:
http://www.openbsd.org/pkg-stable.html
Is that different from:
http://www.openbsd.org/errata43.html
which lists some patches?
The first link is for add-on packages which are not part of the OpenBSD
base system.
The second is for patches of the base system.
Since running -stable, there were changes to userland in /usr/src which
I built. Was that not considered a patch?
If I understand your question correctly, you may find the answer here:
http://www.openbsd.org/stable.html
Of interest:
"[..] OpenBSD provides a source tree that contains important patches and
fixes (i.e. those from the errata plus others which are obvious and
simple, but do not deserve an errata entry) [..]"
"[..] * Errata entries are made for bugs which affect many people. Other
patches may be merged into the patch branch if they affect a few people in
drastic ways."
-Martin
