On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 18:25 -0400, Martin Gignac wrote: > 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
Thanks, that clears up what "patch" refers to. Can you also help me understand these words about -current, from the FAQ: "There are also flag days and major system changes that the developers navigate with one-time tools, which mean that source-based updating is not possible." There are changes that don't occur in the source? Kendall
