And Hi James Hartley again, 1- Is it possible for those xperimentals installs on stable to be installed in a special way as to don't break the system and easily uninstall if it don't work? E.g, as a static version , chrooted, or similarly to the pc-bsd pbi installs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-BSD : .... All software packages and libraries are installed in their own self-contained directories in /Programs, decreasing confusion about where the binary programs reside and reducing the possibility of breaking a package if system libraries are upgraded or changed. The PC-BSD package manager also takes care of creating links in the KDE menu and on the KDE desktop. The PC-BSD project claims its style of package management, which is similar to that of major operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, is simpler than that of other Unix-like systems. ....
Even if it takes much more disk space (?) or some extra Ram/CPU (?), this is not a problem when you can get a new sata2 Maxtor 500MB hd for less than 70$. 2- At http://openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#NoFun it says: """"Because no intrusive changes are made in -stable, it is possible to use -release packages and ports on a -stable system. There is no need to update all your installed packages after applying a few errata patches to your system.""""""" What does this means? macintoshzoom On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:46:28 -0700 "James Hartley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:28 AM, macintoshzoom > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # kern.version=OpenBSD 4.3 (GENERIC.MP) #587: date xxxx > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP > > You are running 4.3-release. gnupg-1.4.9 was checked into the ports > tree after 4.3-release was tagged, which means that you have installed > a port from 4.3-current. If this works at all, consider yourself > lucky, but what you are doing is not recommended. Section 15.4.1 > explains this in further detail: > > http://openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#NoFun
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