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Re:OpenBSD binpatches and package updates by saean on Monday August 08, 2016 @10:18AM (#12247937)
If openbsd developers do it, why don't they make it official and provide it from openbsd.org? They could still plaster "this is thanks to funding from mtier" on the site prominently.
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Re:OpenBSD binpatches and package updates by sdkmvx on Monday August 08, 2016 @11:26AM (#12248498)
The OpenBSD developers are unwilling to do anything that makes some architectures better than others, and M:Tier is unwilling to build stable updates for everything. Perhaps this will change one day as hardware continues to consolidate, but that's the way it is for now.

http://www.openbsd.org/plat.html

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Re:OpenBSD binpatches and package updates by the_trapper on Monday August 08, 2016 @11:51AM (#12248684)
As far as I know, the patches are submitted to the -stable ports tree. mtier just provides a very convenient way to perform binary updates.

I fail to see any downsides to this arrangement.

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