On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 07:07:06PM +0100, Joel Carnat wrote: > But OpenBSD also has "OPENBSD_5_4_BASE" which is what I understood as > "primary snapshot release for 5.4" and "OPENBSD_5_4" which I > understand as "5.4 release plus required (security only ?) patches". I > thought, maybe opensmtpd would also be updated in "OPENBSD_5_4" and > not only in "HEAD".
This is because the OPENBSD_5_4 tag only gets critical security or reliability fixes. It takes too much developer time and effort to backport general stuff all the time in a six month release cycle. > From what I see, OpenSMTPD as shipped with OpenBSD 5.4 is tagged 5.4. > Last snapshot I grabbed (mostly for Bug #333 correction) is tagged > 201310281422. It's not straight forward to deal with but since one > knows when OpenBSD 5.4 start shipping... :) I understand the confusion. That could be. I'm not positive on the version since I'm running snapshots myself. > So since OpenBSD X.X is released, the only way to get new featured or > bug corrected OpenSMTPD is either use OpenBSD "HEAD" or OpenSMTPD > snapshots, right? That's correct. I ran into an obscure bug only triggered by spam-sending mail hosts with super long commands but it was a bug and, when I reported it, it was fixed in a couple of hours and in a snapshot right away and so I have been running OpenSMTPD snapshots with success ever since. I can't ask for better than that from the developers. Bryan -- You received this mail because you are subscribed to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send a mail to: [email protected]
