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Old 21st May 2008
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Originally Posted by avallach View Post
PS. When they decided to discontinue it?
...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 ;-)
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.
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.
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PPS. Sorry for offtopic.
I'll make a request to the Moderators to split this topic into its own thread.

Last edited by ocicat; 21st May 2008 at 05:56 PM.
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