Keeping my OpenBSD system up to date

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From: James Stocks
Date: Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 3:58 am

Hello everybody,

I use a Soekris net5501 running OpenBSD 4.6 (i386) to firewall my small
network.  I want to follow the -stable release to ensure that the system
remains secure.  From reading the OpenBSD documentation, I am left with the
impression that:

- The only way to keep OpenBSD up to date in terms of security patches is to
build my own system from -stable.
- Cross compiling a system is not supported.

I would rather not build a release on the Soekris box because it is quite slow
and because it doesn't presently have enough disk space to store a complete
source tree.  All my other computers are either PowerPC or AMD64, so I don't
believe these can be used to build an i386 release.

I would welcome any suggestions regarding the best way to accomplish this.

Regards,
James.
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Keeping my OpenBSD system up to date, James Stocks, (Sun Jan 31, 3:58 am)
Re: Keeping my OpenBSD system up to date, Michiel van Baak, (Sun Jan 31, 4:09 am)
Re: Keeping my OpenBSD system up to date, Peter N. M. Hansteen, (Sun Jan 31, 4:35 am)
Re: Keeping my OpenBSD system up to date, Paul de Weerd, (Sun Jan 31, 4:56 am)
Re: Keeping my OpenBSD system up to date, Steve Shockley, (Sun Jan 31, 10:02 am)
Re: Keeping my OpenBSD system up to date, Lars Nooden, (Sun Jan 31, 10:10 am)
Re: Keeping my OpenBSD system up to date, James Stocks, (Sun Jan 31, 12:34 pm)
Re: Keeping my OpenBSD system up to date, Corey, (Sun Jan 31, 12:48 pm)