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Old 27th October 2013
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I wonder why .. it's a fresh install...
When you first asked about becoming a -current user, I tried to tell you why. Several times. I'll try once again. Please excuse me if this level setting seems repetitive. It is.

The "snapshot packages" that can be found at mirrors in /pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/<arch> are made available for user convenience, for the popular architectures. They are not going to be perfectly in sync with the snapshots avilable for the same architecture. Here's why:
  1. Snapshots are built for various reasons, and timing will vary.
  2. Snapshot builds take minutes or hours. Snapshot package builds take hours/days/weeks -- depending on architecture and hardware.
  3. There is no expectation that the snapshot build machine will be the same machine(s) that build packages.
From time to time, the discrepancy between a package build and a system build will either prevent a package from installing, or prevent an installed package from operating properly.

OpenBSD -current users are expected to recognize this situation and build these particular packages from ports, themselves.
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