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OpenBSD General Other questions regarding OpenBSD which do not fit in any of the categories below. |
View Poll Results: What OpenBSD flavor do you use? | |||
-release without patches | 10 | 37.04% | |
-release with selected patches | 2 | 7.41% | |
-release with all patches | 2 | 7.41% | |
-stable built once | 0 | 0% | |
-stable built as patches are published | 6 | 22.22% | |
-stable built, but with a different frequency | 1 | 3.70% | |
-current through a snapshot | 10 | 37.04% | |
-current through a snapshot followed by building | 3 | 11.11% | |
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What OpenBSD flavors does our readership use?
I'm curious. It may be both beneficial & interesting to see what our readership runs.
Last edited by ocicat; 4th July 2009 at 12:53 AM. |
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On all of my systems, I use OpenBSD -RELEASE with errata patches.. although sometimes I merge things from -STABLE or -CURRENT, with care.
As for ports, sometimes I take things from -CURRENT.. but hopefully this will change really soon! Basically your run of the mill frankensystem. |
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I use -current on all my systems. I build from source, as I use a custom kernel and a custom userland on the build platforms, then make GENERIC releases available for binary rollout to other systems from there.
I'll rarely go "beyond -current" and test uncommitted patches offered on tech@, if the offered patch addresses something of specific interest. I just did that last week for a Via chipset I use on a server; it was the first time I'd installed an uncommitted patch in many months. ----- Since I run common archs, I use snapshot packages when possible, and build ports when necessary. I know a couple of people who not only build -current from source, but who build the entire ports tree in sync with their release. I don't. I lack the time, interest, processing power, and storage space. |
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Plain old -release here, for both Open and Net. BSD is still just at the hobby stage for me. The relatively little time I have to work on it is necessarily spent learning other things than bleeding over the edge.
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I build from source my own stable releases i386 and sparc64 as patches are published and then do fresh reinstall via network of all my computers.
As for ports, I run essentially unsupported systems. I run lots ports which are back ported from the current branch either by somebody else or me. I also run quite a few applications which are not officially ported to OpenBSD. Again some of that stuff is my hack, and some of that stuff is hacked by other people. Very seldom, when I play with new software, I run the snapshot of current. |
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Since my only OpenBSD system sits in an out of the way spot, it vasically runs a straight release. 2 times a year or less, she gets moved from release X.Y -> X.Z and all packages updated. It's basically one of those setups you'll forget about as long as it keeps runnin'
if I had a more exposed OpenBSD system or one on a desktop or laptop; I would likely track stable or current.
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stable built as patches are published on my home machines. After 4.6 is released, I'll move to -current as long as it will work on my 500mhz machine.
Well, since I had a small problem with the hd, I went ahead and installed a snapshot to check and play with on this 500mhz machine: $uname -a : OpenBSD playbox.my.domain 4.6 GENERIC#61 i386 or from dmesg: OpenBSD 4.6-current (GENERIC) #61: Tue Jul 14 23:18:05 MDT 2009 Sure enjoyed installing 4.6, and so far, everything works great. Last edited by unicyclist; 18th July 2009 at 03:35 PM. Reason: upgraded to 4.6 |
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Using openbsd 4.4
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I run the latest snapshots because that is the best.
I think the options are a little misleading since -release is really just the release. -stable is just patches, so the options '-release plus patches' are not really different from -stable; just a different way to update your code.. Also is it just me or do the percentages not add up to 100%? 42.86+9.52+9.52+23.81+4.76+28.57+9.52 => 128.56 FWIW Jer |
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Quote:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvswe...3&r2=1.154&f=h Basically, the following oversimplification still holds: Code:
-stable = -release + patches + minor changes which formal patches don't address |
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That is very interesting; I didn't realize that.
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