Hi Manuel,

Manuel Pages wrote on Wed, May 07, 2014 at 06:51:00PM +0300:

> Using manuals I have figured out how to follow
> -current by means of buliding kernel and rebuilding
> userspace.

There is usually no need to do that, unless you want to do
bleeding edge base system development and the latest snapshot
isn't new enough for that, which is rare for fast architectures.

> Also I can see that with a known amount
> of caution it's possiblle to use snapshots with -current
> and update userspace with pkg_add -u.
> What escapes my mind though is how do sets get
> updated.

That's exactly what "installing a snapshot" means,
usually by using bsd.rd.

> Can you please link me to manuals covering
> the topics of keeping base of the system up to date
> and in sync with kernel

The kernel is a part of the base system.

> and binary "snapshot" pigs?

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Flavors

Basically, you upgrade the base system to a new snapshot when you
feel you need that for security, bugfixing, functionality or testing
reasons, then run sysmerge(8) and pkg_add -u after that.

Yours,
  Ingo

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