Hi, I would just do some comments inline.
On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 07:20:51PM +0200, Carlos Fenollosa wrote: > Hi, > > I’ve recently discovered OpenBSD after using Linux for more than 15 years. I > wrote > a blog article with my impressions and some other users suggested me to patch > faq9.html to help other users migrating. > > This patch is regarding the fact that there are no binary updates, which is a > given thing > in most Linux distributions, and some tips on how to keep the system updated. > Since English is not my first language, before merging the patch, please make > sure the > wording is proper. > > If you think the issue may be interesting to elaborate on, I could write a > guide of improve > on stable.html to help newcomers adapt to this method of keeping up to date. > > Here’s the whole article if anybody’s interested: > http://cfenollosa.com/blog/openbsd-from-a-veteran-linux-user-perspective.html > > Thanks! > Carlos > > PS: This is my first patch, I’m sending it inline as suggested by > http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/patching-obsd. Apologies if this is not the > right way. it is the good way. thanks for contributing. > Index: faq9.html > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/www/faq/faq9.html,v > retrieving revision 1.113 > diff -u -p -r1.113 faq9.html > --- faq9.html 11 May 2015 11:18:30 -0000 1.113 > +++ faq9.html 28 Jun 2015 17:19:45 -0000 > @@ -133,6 +133,18 @@ The tree is occasionally broken, but thi > will be corrected rapidly, not something that will be permitted to > continue. > > +<li>There are no binary security updates. The team has no resources > +to constantly compile binaries for all architectures, they do it only > +every -release. > Thus, unlike Linux distributions, which come with a > +package manager which takes care of updates (<tt>yum</tt>, > +<tt>apt-get</tt>, etc), there is no single command to update the system > +to the latest binary status. It is a bit more complex. The package manager under OpenBSD is pkg_add(1). It is perferctly able to do binaries updates of packages (note we speak about packages, not the base system). But as you noted previously, no binary packages for security updates are provided for -stable. And if pkg_add(1) haven't a suitable source of updated packages, it couldn't do it. Now, when you build your own packages from ports(7) (after updating it), the system will build a binary package. And pkg_add(1) will update your system with this new (updated) package (make install will invoke pkg_add). > Keeping up-to-date (including security errata) > +is a bit different. You can either (1) upgrade every -release, > +(2) apply patches from<a href="../errata">errata</a> or (3) follow > +<a href="../stable">-stable</a>. Binary updates may be obtained > +from <a href="https://stable.mtier.org";>a third party</a> for the i386 > +and amd64 architectures.</li> mtier provide third party packages for the -stable version for: - base system (using the same mecanism than for ordinaries packages). As it is for -stable, it includes errata. - standard packages. As it is for -stable, it includes security updates for packages. Thanks. -- Sebastien Marie
