On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 06:25:02AM +0000, Tiemen Werkman wrote: > Hey all, > > Which OpenBSD release version am I supposed to use? > I have just started learning to update a port. I simply started all the > work on the stable release(7.2) and submitted the update. Only now did > it occur to me that there is of course also snapshots. Does this matter?
This means you have contributed to the packages for the most recent stable release. If the update is OK'd by ports developers, good job! > Second question: > New packages are not made available for older releases. However updates > for some packages are available. Are all updates to packages made > available to the supported stable release or do some package updates > have to wait for the next release? As I understand it, the policy is that packages for the most recent and next to most recent stable release will get security updates. Older branches are by convention not supported. Snapshots are always close to the -current branch and packages are built to match (more or less) snapshots as they appear. In practice there may be minor discrepancies such as library version mismatches, but real breakage is rare. For you as a prospective ports developer, the job will include taking care of updates for -current -> snapshots plus, if security relevant, the stable branches. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team https://bsdly.blogspot.com/ https://www.bsdly.net/ https://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
