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Old 18th November 2017
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hello what command should i use to check to see if there are any updates to openbsd?
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Old 18th November 2017
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There are not really "updates", if I understand what you mean by that correctly.
Reading the entire article, might help you understand better.
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From:https://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/stable-current-obsd
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Every May and November, there is a new version of OpenBSD announced and uploaded to the FTP servers. The only updates that a -release will get are security and "reliability" fixes. They're distributed as source code patches in the errata page. Errata announcements are sent out via the announce list, so you should subscribe to it. If you're running -release, you will have to manually download these patches, apply them to your /usr/src directory and rebuild whatever was affected. At the top of every patch, there are usually instructions on how to apply it and what needs to be rebuilt.
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For i386/amd64 architectures syspatch(8) is an easier way to update the base installation.
syspatch(8) essentially installs a binary that was generated by OpenBSD developers using the patch referenced in @GarryR post.

Note that this only patches the core installation and not subsequently installed ports.

There are several mechanisms to update ports:
1) jggimi howto
2) M:tier updates
3) Firefox updates
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Every May and November, there is a new version of OpenBSD announced and uploaded to the FTP servers.
So I should check for "upgrades" (new releases) next May and then November ?

I have subscribed to the announce mailing lists. Will I get a notification when a new

release is out ?

I am using 6.2 GENERIC.MP#0 amd64
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New releases and security announcements (errata patches) are announced via the announce@ mailing list.

www.openbsd.org/mail.html
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New releases and security announcements (errata patches) are announced via the announce@ mailing list.

www.openbsd.org/mail.html
Thanks a lot.
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Old 19th December 2017
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So I should check for "upgrades" (new releases) next May and then November ?

I have subscribed to the announce mailing lists. Will I get a notification when a new

release is out ?

I am using 6.2 GENERIC.MP#0 amd64
I use 6.2 GENERIC.MP#2 amd64 (notice the #2) which means that my kernel got recompiled twice and that is because the OpenBSD team pushed to patches to it

The current -stable version is based on the release 6.2 and has already received 3 updates (https://www.openbsd.org/errata62.html) in order to fix bugs, security, etc...
You shouldn't wait for the release 6.3 in order to get those problems fixed.
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# syspatch
is what you should use to keep your base system up-to-date. You could also do it manually: patch you system, recompile but that is tedious and unecessary for a lot of systems.

Concerning the ports, you can read the man pages or the links provided above. Again, you can sync with cvs repo, then recompile the concerned ports.
Or you cna use openup provided by M:Tier. It is not official but the team behind are also OpenBSD devs.

Basically to update both you system + ports:
Code:
# openup
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