On Friday 24 April 2009 08.50.11 you wrote: > Currently I am using 4.2 stable and I am willing to upgrade to -current > because of some new features which i need. > According to faq (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Bld) I should first > upgrade to closest binary, which means upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3 and then to > 4.4 ( Latest snapshot ) and finally Fetch & build *-current. > > Above process as you know will be a highly time consuming process and I > prefer stick to my current 4.2 rather than going through that. why not just > Fetch & build -cuurent directly? what is your recommended approach for > upgrading to -cuurent ? Upgrading thru the binary releases is not that tedious, and you could upgrade to a binary snapshot of -current after the latest binary release have been installed. No need to compile -current AFAIK.
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