On Wednesday 22 November 2006 05:38, Vim Visual wrote: > Hi, > > I installed OpenBSD 4.0 and bought the Absolute OpenBSD and I am just > delighted. > > I have a kind of philosophical question. These 3rd party packages have > sometimes (very often) a "p" sufix. I read that these means the > OpenBSD team has modified the package because of stability/security > reasons... this is awesome! But what do they mean with that? How big > can such a "p" be? Can you give me an example? I am just very curious. > > Cheers, > > Pau
The p suffix means patch, which is just about any time a package has been modifed. This includes actual patches to the code, but probably more often changes to how the package is made. There can be any number of patches to something; OpenOffice for example is at p18, because of its complexity. Packages are NOT at the same level of security as the base op system is. Yes, packages are compiled with Propolice and run with all the enhancements that OpenBSD has, but there are still problems lurking in various things, for certain. To learn more about how packages are made look at man pages packages(7), ports(7) and pkg_add(1). --STeve Andre' _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
