Patches, Maintenance: Going -stable

After installing the 5.6 release, you will want to go to -stable:

  1. Fetch the source. Untar src.tar.gz and sys.tar.gz; or use anonymous CVS:

    cd /usr ; cvs -d anoncvs@anoncvs.ca.openbsd.org:/cvs get -rOPENBSD_5_6 -P src

    The stable CVS branch already has the patches.

  2. Go to http://www.openbsd.org/errata56.html, fetch patches and read the first lines of each:

    For example, open http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/5.6/common/001_rxr.patch in a browser. If you fetched the source via CVS, verify that the changes are in your tree by reading the patch.

  3. Follow the instructions on the top of each patch.

Check http://www.openbsd.org/errata56.html, so far 1 patch for OpenBSD 5.6.

Main reference: http://www.openbsd.org/stable.html

If you have lots of systems (for your values of lots): Fetch source, build a -stable release(8), run upgrades off install56.fs or bsd.rd and sets.