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.

Daniel

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