On 8 April 2011 00:50, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > On 2011/04/07 12:59, patrick keshishian wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Puffy BSD <puffybsd42+po...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On 5 April 2011 14:36, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: >> >> On 2011/04/05 13:05, Puffy BSD wrote: >> >>> On 5 April 2011 11:03, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: >> >>> > On 2011/04/05 09:39, Puffy BSD wrote: >> >>> >> I know about that, just looking for an answer. >> >>> > >> >>> > The answer is: if you want to run -current ports, run -current >> >>> > or do the work yourself. >> >>> > >> >>> >> I've gotten Firefox 3.6.16 and Chromium 10.0.648.204 to work on 4.8 so >> >>> >> I figured this wouldn't be impossible either. >> >>> > >> >>> > Anyone else reading tempted to do the same but on amd64 should note >> >>> > that Chromium will need compiler changes. >> >>> > >> >>> > >> >>> Chromium needed a modified compiler to build on i386 as well. >> >>> >> >> >> >> You aren't really running 4.8 then. >> >> >> >> >> > >> > Really? >> > >> > $ uname -sr >> > OpenBSD 4.8 >> > $ arch >> > OpenBSD.i386 >> > >> > Running chromium compiled without a modified compiler: >> > Segmentation fault (core dumped) >> >> i'm curious as to what "modified compiler" really means in this context? > > in order to get chrome running, he/she has to be running a compiler with > the post-4.9 commit which defines HANDLE_PRAGMA_PACK_PUSH_POP. > > a system with parts of 4.8 and parts of -current doesn't really count > as 4.8 to me...you should really be able to support yourself if you want > to run run frankenstein builds. > > This was built and tested on a system installed from the official 4.8 i386 cd with no parts of -current.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PortsSecurity This is obviously wrong and might give people the false impression that they're up-to-date and secure if they're tracking -stable ports when in fact they're not anymore. Should be changed to read something like this: "15.3.9 - Security updates When serious bugs or security flaws are discovered in third party software, they are fixed in the -current branch of the ports tree. This means all you need to do is make sure you use the -current version of OpenBSD, as explained in FAQ 5 - OpenBSD's Flavors, check out the -current branch of the ports tree, and build the desired software from it. You can keep your tree up-to-date with CVS, and in addition subscribe to the ports-changes mailing list to receive security announcements related to software in the ports tree. Security updates from -current ports tree are not backported to the -stable branch anymore."
