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Old 7th December 2009
zeiz zeiz is offline
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Yeah, but it was vice versa: I had old packages and couldn't update them without total reinstalling
I read in FAQ that using snapshots is recommended but 238MB install46.iso obviously contains no packages so they must be installed again. Yesterday I couldn't install inkscape from a package (not found) and it took me a couple of hours to build it. I also had to rebuild gstreamer otherwise I couldn't update a long chain of dependencies. That the problem with pre-built packages: they are built with those versions of dependencies available at the moment when a package is built and if some of them bump original package cannot be updated automatically (at least I don't know how).
I like how OBSD runs and feels so I'll continue to learn. As I understood so far it is quite possible to follow -current by trivial way: just update sources and packages. As to "Flag Date" it's an exciting challenge, why not to try and definitely learn a lot at once? However looks like this way is not popular. Why?
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