Le Tue, 14 Feb 2023 06:25:02 +0000, Tiemen Werkman <tie...@opifexonline.com> a écrit :
> Hey all, > > Which OpenBSD release version am I supposed to use? > I have just started learning to update a port. I simply started all the > work on the stable release(7.2) and submitted the update. Only now did > it occur to me that there is of course also snapshots. Does this matter? > > Second question: > New packages are not made available for older releases. However updates > for some packages are available. Are all updates to packages made > available to the supported stable release or do some package updates > have to wait for the next release? > > Tiemen Werkman The binary packages of the last stable release are only receiving security updates, or fixes to unbreak a program (mostly only after the release is out). They are provided on the mirrors, so you just have to use pkg_add -u to keep your packages up to date, and sysupdate to keep the base system up to date.
