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Old 5th September 2011
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Originally Posted by sepuku View Post
I thought that i was obliged to do what i did in order to have a well-working system.
As the table in Section 5.3.2 states, downloading source & building is optional. It is not required.

Note that a snapshot is the OpenBSD system compiled at a specific moment. If you download source & build, you are simply moving the point where the resulting system is relative to the files in CVS. A local build may only be slightly different than the earlier snapshot. If that delta between the snapshot & your local build is important, then you have a reason to go through the process of building. If you can't state a specific reason for going through the additional work, then it is not justified. Your time might be better spent doing other things.
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...after upgrading to snapshot which is the next step for me to do?
Install the package pointing PKG_PATH to the directory where -current packages reside as opposed to where -release packages reside. Section 15.2.2 is still valid except that it is written specific to -release users. You are merely changing paths.
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