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Note that OpenBSD 5.1 was released 1 May 2012. Quote:
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Thanks, ocicat.
I was looking at the list of ports available on openports.se. I was checking out the list of available ports and noticed there's no listing for portupgrade, portmaster, or portaudit, which are the very first things I install on a fresh FreeBSD build, but now see from the link you posted there is a different way of doing things with OpenBSD. I know they encourage the use of packages but ports are what I used when learning and don't think I've ever use anything but. |
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If you are unclear on the different flavors of OpenBSD (-release, -stable, & -current), study Section 5.1 of the FAQ. Quote:
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Five years ago, the NetBSD project celebrated the 10-year anniversary of their package management facility, pkgsrc, by interviewing many *BSD luminaries about their ports and packages systems. Though the interviews were pkgsrc focused, you can glean much about the approaches each project has taken. OpenBSD's approach is very well described by Marc Espie, the lead developer of the OpenBSD Project's pkg tools.
http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/10years.html |
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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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