On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 01:11:35PM +0200, Solene Rapenne wrote: > The OpenBSD base system has received binary updates for security and > some other important problems in the base OS through syspatch(8) for the > last few releases. > > We are pleased to announce that we now also provide selected binary > packages for the most recent release. These are built from the -stable > ports tree which receives security and a few other important fixes: > > -release: fixed point in time, no update (6.3, 6.4, 6.5, ...). > -stable: conservative updates only. For ports, only the most recent > release is updated (currently 6.5). > -current: main development branch, receives bigger changes. > > Initial updates for amd64 are already available at most mirrors (check > for the /pub/OpenBSD/6.5/packages-stable directory). i386 is currently > building and will follow soon. If the mirror you are using is not synced > yet, you will need to wait or use a different one. > > pkg_add(1) already had the required heuristic to manage -stable > packages. It will be able to use the /packages-stable/ directory in the > following two cases: > > 1. you use /etc/installurl and the PKG_PATH environment variable is not > set (default installation case) > 2. you use the PKG_PATH environment variable and it uses %c or %m > > The two directories are separate because the "packages" directory holds > the packages built at the release time. They will not be updated. > > The packages-stable directory will be empty at the time of a new > release. Its contents will grow during the release life cycle as > security fixes and other fixes are committed to the -stable ports tree. > > If pkg_add(1) installs a new package and you meet the conditions for > using the packages-stable directory, detailed above, the version in > packages-stable will be chosen instead of the original supplied at > release time. This also applies when using `pkg_add -u` to upgrade > packages. > > This means that, in a default installation, pkg_add will automatically > pick the latest version available to you. > > In the case of updating an installed package, this may require > restarting the running binaries to use the new code. > > More info on the package system can be found at the following link: > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html > > Surprisingly, nobody saw the new directory show up on our mirrors, and > then report it on our mailing lists.
That's awesome news. Thanks for the effort Solene! Many offered and failed in the past... -- Antoine
