On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:12 PM, <trustlevel-...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > --- On Thu, 4/3/10, Tomas Bodzar <tomas.bod...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: Tomas Bodzar <tomas.bod...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: -current or -stable [was: Not another Browser Question] >> To: trustlevel-...@yahoo.co.uk >> Cc: misc@openbsd.org >> Date: Thursday, 4 March, 2010, 14:37 >> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:52 >> PM,B <trustlevel-...@yahoo.co.uk> >> wrote: >> > I had read the faq many times before asking the >> question. I admit not just >> > beforehand. I wasn't specific enough about my thought >> processes and asked too >> > many questions at once, but thanks for all the >> insights. >> > >> > I've decided to use release when available and switch >> to current as needed. >> > >> > > Why not use the even more trusted and tested code from the cd at release time untill one of the few packages I need or one of it's dependencies breaks.
Developers of OpenBSD are doing great job so code from the cd or current is trusted for me. Why current? There is nice and simple manual for following stable in FAQ, but binary upgrade ; sysmerge ; binary update of packages is preferred for me instead of compiling kernel, userland, .... > >> >> > Out of interest how many members of the OpenBSD crew >> constantly track current. >> > >> > > I meant how often do they sync (everyday on i386?, I guess it would depend on what they were working on at the time and who with) > > Do you (anyone) manage /etc separately watching source commits/changes or just apply their changes each time it's replaced via script etc or simply leave it to be updated less frequently than the rest of the system. Don't know how about others, but I use sysmerge(8) for managing of etc and xetc > > >> > The faq mentions flag days. I realise that snapshots >> would avoid this problem, >> > but if I wanted to build a kernel. How would I check >> if today is a flag day. >> > >> >> If you are using snapshots then you don't need build kernel >> as you can >> do binary upgrades from snapshot to snapshot. > > I know, I did say snapshots would avoid that problem, but if I want to use an unsupported kernel configuration, how would I tell if it's a flag day, because the source simply won't fetch? Would it just mean an secondary mirror would stay a day or two old etc. > Some special reason why to have custom kernel instead of GENERIC? > p.s. I always keep a GENERIC around anyway. > > Thanks KeV > > > > > -- http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html
