>I would like to install OpenBSD *once* and keep it patched and secured for >many years there after (5 - 7 years) in a production environment. Would it >be feasible to get a snapshot today and follow -current for many years w/o >having to reinstall? Basically, this approach would skip -stable and >-release and always be -current. I understand the implications of being >current and that things might change and break and may need re-configuring >on occasion. I'm OK with that... I just don't want to reinstall a -release >every year... although I'll still buy CDs as they are released to support >the project.
This is how a lot of issues get debugged... I've stumbled across a lot of stuff by doing this. I pretty much only run some variation of -CURRENT on my prod boxes, but to be fair, I don't have all my eggs in one basket, so I can handle some breakage and downtime.
