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Originally Posted by avallach
PS. When they decided to discontinue it?
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...perhaps a year ago.
"Why" is perhaps a more important question. Outside of DragonflyBSD, the OpenBSD project is the smallest of the *BSD projects. Given the number of people involved, given the six-month release cycle, & given the increasing number of ports checked into the ports tree, the decision was made to suspend backporting port fixes to the
-stable branch. It is felt that ensuring the quality of
-current (which becomes -release every six months...) takes precedence.
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Anyway maybe I'm wrong but they should update those docs more often ;-)
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Information found at the project's Website is updated with each release.
If sufficient funds can be obtained, backporting ports to
-stable may be revisited. This is why the long-time practice has not been removed from the Website.
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Maybe it is current... Don't know. It says patch branch.
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Performing actions without know why or what the consequences may be is not prudent. Study Section 5.3.3 of the FAQ for the answer:
http://openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BldGetSrc
Using the OPENBSD_4_3 CVS tag retrieves all files in the
-stable branch
(which is alternately known as the "patch" branch...). Specifying
no CVS tag retrieves
-current.
I'll make a request to the Moderators to split this topic into its own thread.