On 2018-11-15, Ivan Krylov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > Not to question or criticise existing practices here, just making sure > that I understand the situation correctly. > > Suppose that I'm running -stable (i.e. I installed a supported release > and am running syspatch regularly) and I want to use a few packages. I > would like to be able to install security patches for those, should the > need arise. I'm not interested in updates otherwise. > > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#Intro says: >> Binary packages for -release and -stable are not updated. > > Does this mean that I should either build the packages from ports > myself, as described at https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#Patches > >> Use the -stable ports tree >> >> Fetch (or update) your ports tree, run >> the /usr/ports/infrastructure/bin/pkg_outdated script to list any >> packages in need of rebuilding, and issue make update in the affected >> port directory. To be alerted of port updates, consider following the >> ports-changes mailing list. > > or use someone else's binary packages (e.g. those from m:tier); no other > options? >
Yes.
