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, <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.
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.
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.
p.s. I always keep a GENERIC around anyway.
Thanks KeV
-current is typically safer by default since all those errata in release
versions are already fixed in -current snapshots. No patches, no builds.
just update to latest snapshots, other than time to update packages,
maybe 10-15 minutes or less
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