On 2/9/2013 10:11 PM, Crookedmaze wrote:
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.
Remember that generating binary patches isn't free - they need to be built for all necessary archs (and many are nowhere near as fast as your i386/amd64 machine), they need to be tested, they need to be hosted, they need ... etc.
With that said, here's an article from undeadly: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20130113185003 ~Brian
