On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Maurice Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 13:56:44 +0100, Maurice Janssen wrote: >>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. > > Forgot to mention where you can download the filesets: > ftp://ftp.z74.net/pub/OpenBSD/ > > A list of mirrors and a bit more info can be found at: > http://www.z74.net/openbsd.html > > Maurice >
I'm sorry about my ignorance, but I was reading the section 5.4 about releases, and couldn't find out how to upgrade a system from a release, :(. Maybe such upgrade is more like "http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade44.html";? But the release tree needs to be downloaded, or maybe synchronized instead, maybe using rsync? Just thinking out loud how to do upgrades to this binary repo once the installation is OK.... Javier.
