On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 18:25 -0400, Martin Gignac wrote:
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> On Tue, 20 May 2008, Kendall Shaw wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> > 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

Thanks, that clears up what "patch" refers to.

Can you also help me understand these words about -current, from the
FAQ:

"There are also flag days and major system changes that the developers
navigate with one-time tools, which mean that source-based updating is
not possible."

There are changes that don't occur in the source?

Kendall