On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Andres Salazar <[email protected]> wrote: > What is the best practice when building a new machine, or why would > one prefer one aside from the other: > > a.) Compile kernel and userland from a recent -stable src checkout > or b.) Apply all the errata from http://www.openbsd.org/errata45.html ? > > Both are equivalent is this correct?
This is not completely correct. -stable tends to contain some minor changes that don't warrant an errata entry. I recommend doing A for new deployments--and you might want to read release(8) if you are planning on doing many.

