First read https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Flavors and https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Flavors
New packages are built for -current on most architectures, and for -stable on currently just amd64 and i386. Ask again if you have remaining questions after that. On 2026-04-01, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Would someone be so kind as to explain how package "progression" works? > I am currently (happily) automating OpenBSD builds with sitesXX.tgz and > autoinstall. > > I am trying to add Fish shell to this. (rsync the packages locally so I can > build off net) > > I've seen in the package directory at the mirror site, version 4.1.1 > (september 2025) > /pub/OpenBSD/7.8/packages/amd64/ > fish-4.1.1.tgz > > (On a Linux box I have, its 4.2.0. And the current Fish release is 4.6.0) > > In the CVS repository > https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/log/ports/shells/fish/main/pkg/PLIST,v?sort=File > It shows: > revision 1.9/ (Download) - annotate - Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:33:29 UTC by > volker > Changes since 1.8: +1 -0 (diff) > > shells/fish/main: Update to 4.6.0 > > From Maintainer Florian Viehweger, thanks > > > So my "guess" is that this is the "ports" version? > > Questions: > --------------------------------------------------------------------------How > does an application get "promoted" to a new version in packages? > If I want to run the latest 4.6.0, is it "safe" to use the version in ports? > (assume I can just run make in the ports directory for it?) > Are all packages in the mirror held at the original version from that release > date? > And its up to me the user to update with ports before the next OpenBSD > release if I wish? > > Thanks, sorry for the questions. Just eager to learn more on this topic. > > > > -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
