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Old 27th May 2012
RalphEllis RalphEllis is offline
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Hi Trihexagonal,
Hope you enjoy your experience with OpenBSD.
A key item to remember for OpenBSD is that the main system and the packages and ports must be in sync or you will hit package management problems that can only be solved by a reinstall. In FreeBSD, the kernel and ports should be rebuilt at the same time but you are less likely to hit a package management issue that cannot be fixed down the line. You can still hit serious issues in FreeBSD too. At one point, if you built the kernel and system with Clang, you could not build Libreoffice or OpenOffice in ports.
In OpenBSD, if you do a binary upgrade from one release to another and follow the directions, the upgrades are simple and painless. If you want to upgrade more frequently, consider the instructions for following OpenBSD stable which will mainly include patches. You can follow current but just make sure that the dates are the same for the main system and the packages.
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