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the bit that resulted in me removing it from all my routers/firewalls was having to run "make world" and rebuild the entire OS to install security fixes not at
by blibble 3y ago
the bit that resulted in me removing it from all my routers/firewalls was having to run "make world" and rebuild the entire OS to install security fixes
not at all practical on a router with a underpowered cpu and little disk
apparently the developers have had a change of heart here (previously they didn't believe in providing binaries for security fixes)
- peter_hansteen 3y agoThat particular problem has been addressed in the more common architectures - syspatch was introduced in OpenBSD 6.1 (April 2017) https://man.openbsd.org/syspatch https://man.openbsd.org/syspatch
- rjsw 3y agoI think the expectation is that you would cross-compile for your router on a faster machine. I have no idea whether you need to be running OpenBSD on the build machine.
- accrual 3y agoThis is indeed how I did it before syspatch was available. I ran a more powerful Dell Optiplex tower as my "build box" and built the -stable branch on it, then installed those sets on my low power router boxes. https://man.openbsd.org/syspatch https://man.openbsd.org/syspatch