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1.48 tb 25: <h3 id="whatis">What is the <i>-stable</i> branch?</h3>
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27: The <i>-stable</i> branch is one of OpenBSD's three
28: <a href="faq/faq5.html#Flavors">flavors</a>.
29: It consists of the release and <a href="errata.html">errata</a> patches.
30: More precisely:
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1.4 deraadt 32: <ul>
1.48 tb 33: <li>Errata entries are made for bugs which affect many people.
34: <li>Other patches may be merged into <i>-stable</i> if they affect a few
35: people in drastic ways.
36: <li>New or changed functionality, hardware support or APIs will <i>not</i> be
37: merged.
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1.56 tj 40: If you're running the -release branch of OpenBSD on amd64 or i386, you can
41: simply use the <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/syspatch">syspatch(8)</a> utility
42: to upgrade any files in need of
43: <a href="faq/faq10.html#Patches">security or reliability fixes</a>.
44: This page describes how to follow the -stable branch via CVS and building
45: from source.
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1.48 tb 47: <h3 id="getting">Getting <i>-stable</i> source code</h3>
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1.56 tj 49: To obtain the <i>-stable</i> tree for OpenBSD 6.1, <b>it is recommended that you
50: <a href="anoncvs.html#getting">check out</a> a fresh source tree</b> from an
51: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a> server.
52: If you need to <a href="anoncvs.html#updating">update</a> on top of a
53: pre-existing source tree, you need to do
54: <a href="https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/www/faq/current.html?rev=1.808&content-type=text/html#r20161014a">
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65: Do not attempt to go from one release to another via source.
1.56 tj 66: Instead, please follow the <a href="faq/upgrade61.html">upgrade guide</a> for
1.49 tb 67: the release before compiling <i>-stable</i>.
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1.48 tb 69: <h3 id="building">Building OpenBSD <i>-stable</i></h3>
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71: Details on building OpenBSD from source are provided in steps 2 and 3 of the
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73: <a href="http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.1/release">release(8)</a> manual.
1.49 tb 74: There is also an FAQ on <a href="faq/faq5.html">building the system</a>.
1.48 tb 75: If you have a number of machines to keep on the <i>-stable</i> branch, you may
1.49 tb 76: wish to <a href="faq/faq5.html#Release">make a release</a>.
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1.48 tb 78: <h4>Rebuild the kernel and reboot</h4>
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1.48 tb 80: Replace <tt>GENERIC</tt> with <tt>GENERIC.MP</tt> for multiprocessor systems.
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1.52 tb 83: # <b>cd /sys/arch/$(machine)/compile/GENERIC</b>
1.57 ! tb 84: # make obj
! 85: # make config
! 86: # make && make install
1.40 tj 87: # <b>reboot</b>
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1.40 tj 90: If your system has trouble booting the new kernel, you can easily go back
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1.48 tb 93: <h4>Rebuilding the userland</h4>
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1.40 tj 96: # <b>rm -rf /usr/obj/*</b>
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1.51 tb 98: # <b>make obj && make build</b>
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