On 2011-07-11, Miguel Almeida <miguelalme...@miguelalmeida.pt> wrote: > Hello all. This is the first time I'm posting to this mailing list so I'll > briefly introduce myself: I'm Miguel Almeida, I live in Portugal, I work as an > independent consultant, I've been using OpenBSD for less than a year (on two > of my own servers) and, well, to end this short intro, I'll say I've (almost) > completed 40 laps around the sun : ) > > This being said, the doubt I have regarding the OpenBSD packages is this: (and > yes, I've read the FAQ) > > The context, as I understand it: > > - The development and porting teams update the base system and the ports in > the current and stable branches, and this effort includes, among other things, > updating these trees whenever a security update is required; > > - This work includes updating two stable branches (e.g. if the last release is > 4.9, both 4.9-stable and 4.8-stable will be updated); and > > - The packages are built from the ports tree and may be also updated if a > security vulnerability is found. > > My question is this: as I've seen that some packages built for 4.8 and 4.9 > have different version numbers - even after using pkg_add -u - should I assume > that in order to keep the packages up to date I should _always_ upgrade to the > latest release and follow stable? Or, alternatively, should I adopt the > ports-stable method for installing and managing third-party software instead > of using packages altogether? > > Thank you very much in advance for your reply (!) > Best regards > -- Miguel > >
There are no official binary packages built from -stable ports, if you want these I suggest setting up a build server and using dpb (see dpb(1); use "man -M /usr/ports/infrastructure/man dpb" on 4.9) to produce your own packages. -stable ports *only* covers the latest release.
