On Tue, 20 May 2008, Kendall Shaw wrote:

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> I'm following -stable until I read some more, and I'm unclear on some
> aspects of syncing source.
>
> There was an earlier post about why there are no security patches for
> 4.3 listed at:
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/pkg-stable.html
>
> Is that different from:
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/errata43.html
>
> which lists some patches?

The first link is for add-on packages which are not part of the OpenBSD 
base system.

The second is for patches of the base system.

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> Since running -stable, there were changes to userland in /usr/src which
> I built. Was that not considered a patch?

If I understand your question correctly, you may find the answer here:

   http://www.openbsd.org/stable.html

Of interest:

"[..] 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) [..]"

"[..] * Errata entries are made for bugs which affect many people. Other 
patches may be merged into the patch branch if they affect a few people in 
drastic ways."

-Martin