Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > Hi Tony, > > Tony Berth wrote on Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 08:11:31PM +0200: > > > but FAQ5 is about 'Building the System from Source' which I don't > want! > > I just want to patch an existing system! > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#Patches > > Note that this one doesn't talk about cvs checkout at all, > but recommends different ways to get the RELEASE sources. > > > Instead of > > '# cd /usr; cvs checkout -P -rOPENBSD_4_7 src' > > I applied > > '# cd /usr; cvs checkout -P src' > > in order to get the current tree but patch001 still gives the same > error! > > None of these is RELEASE. > > If you want to understand what these two commands do, follow Nick's > advice > and read FAQ 5. Granted, that's not required for patching your system, > but > maybe you want to understand what you are doing and why it fails... > > Sometimes, it *is* useful to read a bit more than the bare minimum > required to type the right commands, in order to be able to understand > your own errors and become able to help yourself. > > Yours, > Ingo
Maybe I'm just being dense, but HOW can you patch a system without "building from source"? ... unless you have binary patches for all the architectures and that gets much more complicated if you have combinations of patches ...
