Budhi Setiawan wrote: > dear all > > i guess this is stupid question, but since i very young in the > openbsd land, i have a lof of question : > > 1. how important to make our system (OS and packages) always > up-to-date ( except with security reason of course ), because some > people says " you should update your system at least once a year"
Well..the reason you probably want to run OpenBSD is because you don't have many security issues. This can actually be a mixed blessing, if not managed properly. You can plant an OpenBSD box, and pretty much ignore it for a long time. You slowly forget how you configured it. You don't have a way to deal with "issues" should they come up (like hardware failures). And the box keeps doing its job. And one day...you *need* to upgrade. Maybe it is a security issue. Maybe it is as "minor" as needing new features. Now you got a problem. Keeping your system upgradable is critical. The goal isn't to get a machine running, but to keep your application running as much as possible, and that includes life-cycle issues like upgrades, repairs, etc. OpenBSD releases are supported for one year after initial release. Releases are made every six months. Upgrade instructions are published for release-to-release, not skipping releases. I'd highly recommend keeping your system up-to-date on the most recent release (or recent -stable, if you so desire, though most people will usually not need to do that). Keep the upgrade process in mind. I'm in the middle of building a box for my office, relatively simple config, but not exactly "off-the-shelf". Did it once, got it all working, now I'm doing it again, WHILE DOCUMENTING IT. I'm discovering I'm not remembering the stuff I did a month ago...I'm surely not going to recall all the little tweeks in six months or a year! :) > 2. if i'm doing upgrade from 3.7 to 3.8, what happen to my old > program's since my old program's using the old librari's ? is it > still works without recompiling ? yep, old libraries are not deleted. Your old programs will most likely keep running. HOWEVER, you probably want to keep those up to date, too. > 3. and another if, how to make my system clean after i'm upgrade from > one version to another version ? because i still see the old > libraries from the old version ! That kinda defeats what you wanted in #2. We can't please everyone, and it looks like we aren't going to please you on these two issues. :) You are free to delete anything you want, but don't expect OpenBSD to do that for you. We provide the bullets, you provide the foot (leg, head, whatever). Nick.
