On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 06:52:14AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm just looking at how openbsd works to see if it suits my needs.  I
> have a small old box (piii celeron @797 MHz & 32KB $, with 512 MB
> ram), and in my experience compiling just the linux kernel takes ~4
> hrs, and compiling gcc/g++ takes ~24 hrs...
> 
> I read in the documentation that if there are fixes, they come through
> patches, and then to keep things simple, the easiest "fastest" way is
> to keep the whole stable source tree up to date with patches, which
> imply initial compilation + recompiling any time a patch arise...
> 
> I'm wondering whether this would mean lots of compilation time, which
> in this small machine might take too much...
> 
> So it's true there's no binary way to keep the system patched, right?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Javier

Correct, there is no binary way to track -stable. If you want to
follow -current you can use snapshots that are created every few
days or so and available on most mirrors.

.... Ken

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