How do I update a new installed OpenBSD 6.5 to stable reddit / BSD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- emilengler · 2019-10-03 13:42 Hello, I just installed OpenBSD (with full disk encryption) and want to switch to the stable flavor. How do I do this? On the internet I only found weird stuff with connecting to the CVS and then muilding from src. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- danielgurney · 2019-10-03 14:02 If you don't want to build the system from source, use syspatch(8) to download binary patches that come from the stable branch. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- emilengler · 2019-10-03 15:18 Is this how to switch to the stamle branch? Wy system is still release ---------------------------------------------------------------------- danielgurney · 2019-10-03 16:47 syspatch gets you patches considered critical, which should be all that an average user needs to be concerned with. If you really want to follow -stable in the traditional sense, building from source is the only way. It's not that difficult, [just follow these instructions](https://www.openbsd.org/stable.html). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2019-10-03 18:55 `doas syspatch` And when 6.6 is released later this month `doas sysupgrade` ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kernigh · 2019-10-03 22:22 Read [OpenBSD FAQ: Security Patches](https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#Patches). You probably want the binary patches `syspatch` and the binary packages `pkg_add -u`. After you get these, your -release system has most of the changes from -stable. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jggimi · 2019-10-04 00:41 * Release plus errata patches is similar to (and sometimes exactly like) -stable. The -stable OS is -release plus the published errata patches, plus sometimes patches which do not rise to the severity or broad use-cases of errata patches. If you are on one of the architectures supported by binary patches, you can install them with the syspatch(8) utility mentioned by others. * The -stable ports tree will have updates for CVEs. If you are on one of the architectures supported with -stable packages, you can install updates with pkg_add(1). The -stable packages are stored in https:///pub/OpenBSD//packages- stable// and will be included automatically if you use an installurl(5) file rather than a manual $PKG_PATH environment variable.