On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:40:54PM -0400, Aaron W. Hsu wrote: > > Could someone point me to the appropriate docs or info on the > > mechanism for keeping the packages/ports of a stable OBSD system > > up-to-date? > > Occassionally I see a security patch backported to the -STABLE branch, > but if you are really concerned about security, pretty much your only > hope is to either run -CURRENT or track the security updates and > backport them yourself. They may not be too hard to do, but it's not > just as easy as pkg_add -ui.
I've never tracked -current. How much bandwidth and how much compiling time does it tend to take? As for backporting security updates, I'm not a C guru; I'm barely C litterate yet alone a C programmer. I only have the phone for about an hour a day, and the computer for a couple of hours. I don't want to spend all that time just keeping the system up-to-date and not getting any real work done. Doug.
