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Making OpenBSD Binary Patches With Chroot

Posted by kdawson on from the sometimes-a-cigar-is-just-a-stogie dept.

Lawrence Teo writes "Unlike other operating systems, patches for the OpenBSD base system are distributed as source code patches. These patches are usually applied by compiling and installing them onto the target system. While that upgrade procedure is well documented, it is not suitable for systems that don't have the OpenBSD compiler set installed for whatever reason, such as disk-space constraints. To fill this gap, open source projects like binpatch were started to allow administrators to create binary patches using the BSD make system. This article proposes an alternative method to build binary patches using a chroot environment in an attempt to more closely mirror the instructions given in the OpenBSD patch files."

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  1. Re:Have I missed something here? by oscartheduck · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Without wanting to start a fight or anything, I genuinely don't see how the grandparent is slighting linux here. You can for a lot of linux OSes get the patches as source code. Sure, Windows doesn't, but that's not linux, which the grandparent specifically asked about. As for Mac OS, I don't know whether you can get the patches as source, but I imagine not.

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  2. Article: Testdriving -current by hubertf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    FWIW I've written the following article on how to testdrive (NetBSD, but that shouldn't matter) -current on a 'release' system quite some time ago:

    http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/testdriving-current.ht ml

    Maybe it's of interest to someone. Enjoy!

      - Hubert