On 09/23/2011 11:32 AM, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
man dpb
While I appreciate the dubious "humour" of these questions repeating
near *every friggin release*, I also award you this badge for your
reply:
http://codinghorror.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a85dcdae970b0128776ff992970c-pi
dpb is not in base, there are no packages, it's not mentioned in the
OpenBSD FAQ or Porter's Handbook, and it's not listed at openports.se.
It can be found via the googles, but for your average OpenBSD user
typing man dpb will do exactly diddly squat. ;-)
Ahh... you got me...... Guilty as charged. I forget that I have the
ports tree installed and all the rest of stuff.......
This needs a FAQ entry, what say Nick?
this is not a tool for the masses.
Even if it WERE in base and there were a man page for it, I do not
believe the developers would be interested in having people look at the
FAQ and say, "oooo...cool, I should do this!"
Shoot...the people who started this and several other identical threads
recently aren't able to use a search engine or look in the last week or
two's messages to misc@ to figure this out...you want them to use the
distributed package builder?
Let's once-again answer the original query.
1) The active version of OpenBSD is currently 4.9
2) 5.0 is not out yet.
3) -current is for people who can deal with certain issues, like maybe
no packages available.
4) OpenBSD is in the package transition period, between 4.9, 5.0 and
-current, and packages can and will be erratic here.
(think: -current may have progressed beyond what -release packages can
do, sparc and m68k may still be working on completing -release packages)
5) bad packages are probably worse than no packages.
6) There will be times, like now, when packages may not be available.
Nick.
