Re: basic questions regarding patching, errata and stable branch

2006-05-23 Thread Tobias Weisserth
Hi, On Monday, 22. May 2006 19:55, Ted Unangst wrote: I have read that mixing up checked out subsystems from CVS like src, ports and XF4 cannot be done across different branches without breaking the system at some time. Let's assume I don't want to spend the extra compile time and

basic questions regarding patching, errata and stable branch

2006-05-22 Thread Tobias Weisserth
Hi everybody, I am still trying to sort out some of the information on the OpenBSD website about how to follow a specific branch and what are the benefits of each method. I understood what STABLE, CURRENT and RELEASE are and how to follow them. I still have some difficulties figuring out what

Re: basic questions regarding patching, errata and stable branch

2006-05-22 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 07:21:33PM +0200, Tobias Weisserth wrote: I guess the best solution would be to follow stable but speaking honestly this seems like a lot of wasted bandwidth and CPU time for a few small changes at best? Best depends on many things. ;) I follow stable on my production

Re: basic questions regarding patching, errata and stable branch

2006-05-22 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/22/06, Tobias Weisserth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Starting with 2.7, OpenBSD provides a source tree that contains important patches and fixes (i.e. those from the errata plus others which are obvious and simple, but do not deserve an errata entry) and makes it available via CVS in addition

Re: basic questions regarding patching, errata and stable branch

2006-05-22 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Mon, 22 May 2006 19:21:33 +0200, Tobias Weisserth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still trying to sort out some of the information on the OpenBSD website about how to follow a specific branch and what are the benefits of each method. I understood what STABLE, CURRENT and RELEASE are and how

Re: basic questions regarding patching, errata and stable branch

2006-05-22 Thread Will H. Backman
Tobias Weisserth wrote: Hi everybody, I am still trying to sort out some of the information on the OpenBSD website about how to follow a specific branch and what are the benefits of each method. I understood what STABLE, CURRENT and RELEASE are and how to follow them. I still have some