>I would like to install OpenBSD *once* and keep it patched and secured for
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>many years there after (5 - 7 years) in a production environment. Would it
>be feasible to get a snapshot today and follow -current for many years w/o
>having to reinstall? Basically, this approach would skip -stable and
>-release and always be -current. I understand the implications of being
>current and that things might change and break and may need re-configuring
>on occasion. I'm OK with that... I just don't want to reinstall a -release
>every year... although I'll still buy CDs as they are released to support
>the project.


This is how a lot of issues get debugged... I've stumbled across a lot of 
stuff by doing this.  

I pretty much only run some variation of -CURRENT on my prod boxes, but to be 
fair, I don't have all my eggs in one basket, so I can handle some breakage 
and downtime.