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
