From: "Edd Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Josh Grosse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Ling Xiaoheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "OpenBSD Misc Maillist"
<misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: Newbie some problem with OpenBSD
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Josh Grosse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Upgrading by compiling source is unsupported.
I don't see why that wouldn't work, just so long as you sysmerge.
Actually, the issue isn't whether it would work, or whether it's supported.
The real question is : Why bother?
Compiling by source is vastly slower and more involved than whacking the
install cd/disk/netboot in and telling the system to upgrade.
As mentioned in response to the original post, it's rarely necessary to
compile the source. At this point, there are precisely five fixes included
in 4.3-stable, which is what the majority of people running production
systems should be running..
The time to compile source is when it brings a tangible benefit. In this
case, it doesn't.
PK
