Hello all. This is the first time I'm posting to this mailing list so I'll briefly introduce myself: I'm Miguel Almeida, I live in Portugal, I work as an independent consultant, I've been using OpenBSD for less than a year (on two of my own servers) and, well, to end this short intro, I'll say I've (almost) completed 40 laps around the sun : )
This being said, the doubt I have regarding the OpenBSD packages is this: (and yes, I've read the FAQ) The context, as I understand it: - The development and porting teams update the base system and the ports in the current and stable branches, and this effort includes, among other things, updating these trees whenever a security update is required; - This work includes updating two stable branches (e.g. if the last release is 4.9, both 4.9-stable and 4.8-stable will be updated); and - The packages are built from the ports tree and may be also updated if a security vulnerability is found. My question is this: as I've seen that some packages built for 4.8 and 4.9 have different version numbers - even after using pkg_add -u - should I assume that in order to keep the packages up to date I should _always_ upgrade to the latest release and follow stable? Or, alternatively, should I adopt the ports-stable method for installing and managing third-party software instead of using packages altogether? Thank you very much in advance for your reply (!) Best regards -- Miguel
