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Old 6th June 2008
ocicat ocicat is offline
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Originally Posted by shep View Post
If I were to try an run a "-current" machine would it have to be with ports rather than packages?
Packages for -current can be found at pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/<arch>. Because not all applications are compiled into packages, you may have to resort to building some yourself.
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I think I can pull down a current tree with cvs but was wondering if OpenBSD has a portupgrade or portsmanger tool or other way to update installed packages to "-current"
See the manpage for pkg_add(1) for discussion on the -u switch. Note the differences with -r too.

Be aware that you will not be able to upgrade a -release or -stable system directly to -current. See the table in Section 5.1 of the FAQ for more information on what path can be taken:

http://openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Flavors

Information on using anonymous CVS can be found at:

http://openbsd.org/anoncvs.html

More information on updating packages can be found in Section 15.2.6 of the FAQ:

http://openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PkgUpdate

Last edited by ocicat; 6th June 2008 at 03:33 AM. Reason: corrected path to -current packages
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