[Gllug] Recommend an ADSL modem?

Tethys tet at createservices.com
Wed Jan 21 14:45:51 UTC 2004


Richard Jones writes:

>Do you find OpenBSD easy to upgrade incrementally?  I was always under
>the impression that the packaging system used on the BSDs (ie.  ports
>& packages) isn't as upgradable as Debian.  There's no way I found to
>do 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade' no a regular basis to keep
>up to date.

True, and this is probably the biggest weakness of *BSD. But provided
you just want to keep in sync with the latest version of OpenBSD with
the appropriate patches applied, then CVS works fine. What it doesn't
let you do is cherry pick packages, as you can do with a proper
packaging system.

Tet
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