On 2018-02-19, Martijn van Duren <openbsd+m...@list.imperialat.at> wrote: > Hello Aham, > > On 02/18/18 21:09, Aham Brahmasmi wrote: >> Hi Carlos, >> >> Thank you for your response. >> >> I have been learning and understanding OpenBSD for around one month now. >> As such, I had installed -release, and used syspatch to reach -stable. >> >> I have spent some time right now trying to understand the mechanism to >> reach -current from -stable. >> >> From what I understand, I first need to upgrade to the latest snapshot. >> From there, I need to use source build instructions at >> https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Bld to reach -current. > > There's no need to build from source, just upgrading via the latest > snapshot suffices. >> >> I would like to do the above because I am also interested in the spamd >> and IPv6 diff that phessler@ has. But right now, I am quite a bit >> inexperienced, so you would have to be patient with me. >> >> From what I understand, to install snapshot I need to download >> https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/bsd.rd, boot that >> at the boot prompt and then (U)pgrade from there. >> > That is correct. > If you don't intent to work on the source, there's no need to build it > yourself.
Unless wanting to test a diff. However for that you typically don't need to rebuild the whole system.
