On Tue, 07 Apr 2020 19:05:31 +0000 (UTC), Chris Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all. I am running a OpenBSD 6.6 that I installed late last > year. I was recently trying to make sure I'd updated my smtpd to > 6.6.4, based on earlier security announcement. As I'm running on a > sparc64, syspatch doesn't work. While I'd love to talk about > rectifying that, that's a bigger issue. > > For now, I figured I would get the -stable branch (OPENBSD_6_6) and > that would have an updated smtpd I could install. But, I find that > that branch only have smtpd 6.6.0 in it. I was of the impression > that was the stable branch, and as such it should get updates, > especially including security updates. > > Let me know how I should track important updates for my system, > without syspatch support for my arch. The syspatch creation process includes committing to the (old)stable branch. AFAIK, what happened here is that the fixes were backported but the version wasn't bumped. But if you want to be sure, check the code you're going to compile. Cheers, Daniel
