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Grex > Coop > #40: My case for the upgrade to be OpenBSD 4.2-beta rather than 4.1 |  |
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gelinas
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response 75 of 81:
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Aug 16 23:48 UTC 2007 |
Not a bad idea, but it doesn't answer my question. ;)
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cross
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response 76 of 81:
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Aug 17 01:01 UTC 2007 |
Regarding #73; Short answer, yes, but it's unlikely to take as long.
Longer answer: I'm hoping to have a lot of the procedure more firmly
nailed down and (most importantly) automated via scripts and the like, so it
should be much more straight forward. My big emphasis for this upgrade is,
``change the base operating system as little as possible.'' Hence, most
changes have been pushed to places that are *expected* to change. The
rationale here, of course, is that if we change the base operating system very
little, then that's less we have to change to do an upgrade, and less
opportunity to make mistakes.
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keesan
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response 77 of 81:
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Aug 17 01:01 UTC 2007 |
Is there a precompiled lynx 2.8.6 for OBSD?
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cross
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response 78 of 81:
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Aug 17 01:09 UTC 2007 |
Probably not; is there a compelling reason to get Lynx 2.8.6? Some critical
feature or bug fix?
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keesan
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response 79 of 81:
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Aug 17 02:30 UTC 2007 |
2.8.5rel1 dates from Feb. 2004 (3.5 years ago). There are many pages of bug
fixes and improvements listed (18 pages at 1024 resolution) at
http://lynx.isc.org/release/lynx-2-8-6/CHANGES. 2.8.6rel1 is Oct 2006 and
not much has changed since then. They are working on 2.8.6dev5 now.
YOU also need to update cacert.pem (cert.pem) every 6 months or so in order
not to get messages about certificates. I have the address for it.
Some of the fixes have to do with memory leaks.
OpenBSD 4.1 still has lynx 2.8.5rel4.
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cross
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response 80 of 81:
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Aug 17 02:36 UTC 2007 |
Yes, but that's the version that comes with the operating system, which means
it's the one supported by the OpenBSD folks: the newer version might not be
supported.
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khamsun
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response 81 of 81:
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Aug 17 13:49 UTC 2007 |
I probably missed something...
WHY is it so important to run -current, ie. now 4.2pre instead of 4.1
??? Version numbering in OpenBSD isn't features related, it's just that
De Raadt decided to put a release each 6-months. Moreover Grex is a
console system (no need for getting latest port upgrades of GUI stuff)
running" old" hardware (no need for drivers for latest wip, sata, new
chipsets, ...).
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