On 02/09/2013 08:42 PM, System Administrator wrote:
OpenBSD is all about KISS (simplicity) -- have you tried running the bi-
annual release update procedure? have you read (carefully) the FAQ
section on upgrading? Many users report it takes less than 15 minutes
to perform a *remote* upgrade. Also you need to mind that OpenBSD does
not support version rollbacks or offer binary updates to stable. So
will an additional tool which requires ongoing maintenance and a
configuration file setup, really add value (simplicity) ?
On 9 Feb 2013 at 20:23, Crookedmaze wrote:
Dear OpenBSD Community,
Hello I am wondering if there is a tool similar to FreeBSD-update on
OpenBSD? If not are there any reasons for why a tool like this
hasn't been developed? Also if there isn't a tool like this
(I am pretty sure there isn't one as I have checked) if I were to
develop one do you think it would be accepted into OpenBSD? Please
let me know what you think!
Sincerely,
Crookedmaze
Yes, System Administrator I have had a look at the FAQ the reason I am
asking about such a tool is because it seems as if the only way to
update OpenBSD (Errata update wise) is to download a patch from
the errata page and to manually patch the source code then follow the
instructions for applying the patch (Or you could follow stable using
CVS). I just thought it would be easier (and Simpler) if you were
able to patch the version of OpenBSD you are running by simply typing
openbsd-update which would then apply the security update by download
and installing a binary package. I also don't think that it would
require as much overhead as you might think because currently
(OpenBSD 5.2) there has only been one release errata patch and in
OpenBSD 5.1 there was also only one. So it would really only require
a few binary packages (or at most 18 depending on the number of
architectures affected) to be released I am not necessarily talking
about upgrading openbsd to a new release I am more so talking about
simply applying errata patch fixes through binary packages. So I
think this would actually help to simplify the updating process because
it would reduce the number of steps you would have to take to apply
security (and reliability) updates to OpenBSD. Please correct
me if I am wrong (or simply mistaken) but I think this
would definitely help to simply things.
Sincerely,
Crookedmaze
