I'll try to make this short and to the point, so as to waste as little of your time as possible. I'm a relatively new OpenBSD user (stupendous end-user experience so far, by the way. I'm continually saying, out loud, "that's it?!??" when I prepare myself to spend hours doing something and it ends up taking bare minutes. Many, many kudos.), and as such don't have the firmest grasp on exactly how things are supposed to work.
I know that ports are associated with each release, so that I can't run current ports without running -CURRENT. However, I couldn't tell if the -STABLE ports were "frozen", or if they get updated during the six months that -STABLE is, well, -STABLE. I.e., if something in ports is broken, because of an ftp path change, does it get fixed and a new ports.tar.gz generated, or does it wait? Do I need to be running -CURRENT to be able to help in this regard? As you could probably guess, this is not a completely hypothetical question. lsof has been bumped a version, and the old version was pushed into an old/ subdirectory. Obviously ports could be fixed by either grabbing it from the new (old :-) subdir, or by just grabbing the newer version - that's a separate question. I just wanted to know if that's the sort of thing that I should be reporting as a bug against -STABLE. Hrmm, not quite as short as I was shooting for. Oh, well. David Bishop
