Ingo Schwarze wrote:
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>
> Hi Tony,
>
> Tony Berth wrote on Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 08:11:31PM +0200:
>
> > but FAQ5 is about 'Building the System from Source' which I don't
> want!
> > I just want to patch an existing system!
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#Patches
>
> Note that this one doesn't talk about cvs checkout at all,
> but recommends different ways to get the RELEASE sources.
>
> > Instead of
> > '# cd /usr; cvs checkout -P -rOPENBSD_4_7 src'
> > I applied
> > '# cd /usr; cvs checkout -P src'
> > in order to get the current tree but patch001 still gives the same
> error!
>
> None of these is RELEASE.
>
> If you want to understand what these two commands do, follow Nick's
> advice
> and read FAQ 5.  Granted, that's not required for patching your system,
> but
> maybe you want to understand what you are doing and why it fails...
>
> Sometimes, it *is* useful to read a bit more than the bare minimum
> required to type the right commands, in order to be able to understand
> your own errors and become able to help yourself.
>
> Yours,
>   Ingo


Maybe I'm just being dense, but HOW can you patch a system without
"building from source"?

... unless you have binary patches for all the architectures
and that gets much more complicated if you have combinations of patches
...