On Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 06:52:14 -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?

I've been making releases of the -stable tree since 4.0. It's not an
official part of the OpenBSD project and I don't have the hardware to
build them for all architectures, but you might find what you need.

You can use the procedure to update a machine to install them.

Maurice

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