Daniel Jakots <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 07 Apr 2020 19:05:31 +0000 (UTC), Chris Ross > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello all. I am running a OpenBSD 6.6 that I installed late last > > year. I was recently trying to make sure I'd updated my smtpd to > > 6.6.4, based on earlier security announcement. As I'm running on a > > sparc64, syspatch doesn't work. While I'd love to talk about > > rectifying that, that's a bigger issue. > > > > For now, I figured I would get the -stable branch (OPENBSD_6_6) and > > that would have an updated smtpd I could install. But, I find that > > that branch only have smtpd 6.6.0 in it. I was of the impression > > that was the stable branch, and as such it should get updates, > > especially including security updates. > > > > Let me know how I should track important updates for my system, > > without syspatch support for my arch. > > The syspatch creation process includes committing to the > (old)stable branch. AFAIK, what happened here is that the fixes were > backported but the version wasn't bumped.
Because the patch didn't create a version.
