On Sun, 6 May 2012 04:03:46 +0200 ropers wrote: > As for security, since the Openbsd.org packages and ports both come > from the same source, there's no security advantage of ports over > packages unless you don't trust OpenBSD.org and actually read all of > the source code you compile (and, by the way, do the same for your > whole compiler toolchain).
With one exception. If you are running stable rather than current, only security fixes for server packages like dovecot are pushed into ports and so building may be desired as the devs valuable time is spent moving forwards. In current (snapshots are almost current) there are pre-built snapshot packages and a snapshot ISO to upgrade from so you should though it's not always guaranteed be able to just upgrade to the latest snapshot base (install51.iso) and update to the latest snapshot packages. If it fails try again a few days later. You could image or use an identical test machine/partition for that if the stable branch level of guarantee is required.
