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"Keeping your installed OpenBSD packages up to date is hard and time-consuming." I find it very easy. I follow stable and upgrade every six months. Upgrades ta

• phaer 10y ago
  You are talking about base, they are talking about packages (and -current base).
  • w8rbt 10y ago
    I mean the system in general. I get new ports (like everything else) every six months. And when security flaws are discovered in third party software, they are fixed in the -stable branch of the ports tree. https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PortsSecurity https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PortsSecurity
• invernomut0 10y ago
  Maybe you don't want / you do not have the chance to have sources and build tools installed on your production server and you trust mtier to build the patched sources for you. I find it very useful.
• carlesfe 10y ago
  You don't update core/packages when there are security issues? How do you deal with this? I'd like to know alternative approaches to applying patches and recompiling. Thanks!
  • ams6110 10y ago
    The alternative is to use openup from M:tier.