On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 02:55:21PM +0200, Thuban wrote: > Hello, > I'm not sure to understand correctly somme points : > 1. A snapshot is a build made at one time of the developpement, more > recent than *-stable* flavor. > It is not *-current*. Can we consider a snapshot as an unreleased *5.8* > at this time. Or is it above *5.8*?
Actually, snapshots are in almost all cases built from -current cvs checkouts. At times snaps have included not yet committed code that was in need of testing, but I'm not too sure how often that has happened recently. So any snapshot you download by now is past 5.8, with hints of things that will be in 5.9 (but the exact feature set of 5.9 is not yet known). > Is it possible to upgrade from 5.7 yo 5.8 using this flag : > cvs -d$CVSROOT checkout -rOPENBSD_5_8 -P src In almost all cases, a binary upgrade followed by sysmerge will be quicker and easier, but in the general case, yes. > 3. If one use a 5.8 snapshot (i.e [1] ), is it possible to apply updates > for 5.8 *-stable* later? No. As I said earlier (and would be clear from a careful reading of the FAQ), snapshots track -current, not -stable. - Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
