OpenBSD Jumpstart: Learn to Tame OpenBSD Quickly

Re:OpenBSD Jumpstart: Learn to Tame OpenBSD Quickly by blue1 on Sunday December 27, 2015 @05:55AM (#10797091)

I've been using OpenBSD on my firewall for ages, but the fact that patches are only distributed in source form is a giant giant hassle. I understand the reasons for that but it's a level of inconvenience that I find unbearable today. On Debian it's just "apt-get upgrade". On OpenBSD it's so more difficult that I usually end just not patching it at all.

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Re:OpenBSD Jumpstart: Learn to Tame OpenBSD Quickly by davidgerard on Sunday December 27, 2015 @09:08AM (#10797468)

I must admit that apt was what converted me from FreeBSD to Ubuntu and convinced me to put up with the Linux kernel. It is so clearly The Right Thing.

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Re:OpenBSD Jumpstart: Learn to Tame OpenBSD Quickly by jlgaddis on Sunday December 27, 2015 @11:52PM (#10799929)

I don't know how long ago you switched from FreeBSD but are you aware of FreeBSD's (relatively) new `pkg` tool and binary package repositories?

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Re:OpenBSD Jumpstart: Learn to Tame OpenBSD Quickly by Gracana on Sunday December 27, 2015 @10:16AM (#10797629)

m:tier provides binary packages for -stable, if you want to run an OpenBSD box with less hassle: https://www.mtier.org/solutions/apps/

They also make binpatch-ng which helps you create binary patches which you can then distribute around to your machines.

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Re:OpenBSD Jumpstart: Learn to Tame OpenBSD Quickly by zmyrgel on Sunday December 27, 2015 @12:26PM (#10798054)

To add to Gracana's comment. M:Tier provides openup tool which will update your base system and packages to match -stable. That way you don't have to patch and compile your kernel yourself. For trustworthiness of M:Tier, several project developers are employed by M:Tier.

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