When will we ever see binary updates for OpenBSD?  Taking a system

off-line for over 20 hours to do a source code rebuild is just too long,

and just tracking RELEASE means running an insecure system.
Binary updating - try it, you'll like it!

Just curious - why are you using a system that you don't understand

the philosophy of?  No, that came out wrong.  Why aren't you trying to

better understand the system you are using?

you *can* do this - use snapshots. i just did one today -
check openbsd.org/ for any upgrade information
- download bsd.rd, reboot on that & follow (u)pgrade instructions

- it uses ftp to retrieve the rest of the sets you need

- use pkg_add -uiv to upgrade any packages for the final finishing touches
looks like a binary upgrade to me. or are you expecting something else?
a+

scorch

There are no binary updates for the base system to the -stable branch.

The solution, of course, is to create those yourself - see release(8),

the FAQ, or ...
And hint: system don't need to be taken offline in most cases, and you

*can* build on a non-production machine.
		Joachim

The main reason we don't have binary stable updates is that no-one we

trust has the time to build them. It means maintaining an extra machine

that would only track stable, do builds, do the equivalent of releases.

One release every six months is a lot of work already.
If people want to provide stable builds, they're free to do so. Of course,

there's a catch: you have to trust external people to give you trojan-free

stuff...

Troll >/dev/null

Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over?