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1.43      tb         17: <h2>
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1.43      tb         19: <font color="#0000ff"><i>Open</i></font><font color="#000084">BSD</font></a>
                     20: <font color="#e00000">-stable</font>
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1.1       jason      23: <p>
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1.61      tj         25: <h3 id="whatis">What is the -stable branch?</h3>
1.48      tb         26:
1.61      tj         27: The -stable branch is one of OpenBSD's three
1.48      tb         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:
1.40      tj         31:
1.4       deraadt    32: <ul>
1.48      tb         33:   <li>Errata entries are made for bugs which affect many people.
1.61      tj         34:   <li>Other patches may be merged into -stable if they affect a few
1.48      tb         35:       people in drastic ways.
                     36:   <li>New or changed functionality, hardware support or APIs will <i>not</i> be
                     37:       merged.
1.4       deraadt    38: </ul>
1.40      tj         39:
1.56      tj         40: This page describes how to follow the -stable branch via CVS and building
                     41: from source.
1.62      tj         42: If you're running the -release branch on amd64, i386, or arm64, you can also
                     43: use the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/syspatch">syspatch(8)</a> utility to
                     44: upgrade any files in need of security or reliability fixes with binary updates.
                     45: More information can be found <a href="faq/faq10.html#Patches">here</a>.
1.56      tj         46:
1.61      tj         47: <h3 id="getting">Getting -stable source code</h3>
1.40      tj         48:
1.61      tj         49: To obtain the -stable tree for a particular release of OpenBSD, you can
1.48      tb         50: <a href="anoncvs.html#updating">update</a> on top of a pre-existing source tree
                     51: or you can <a href="anoncvs.html#getting">check out</a> a fresh source tree from
                     52: an <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a> server.
1.40      tj         53:
1.4       deraadt    54: <p>
1.48      tb         55: <!-- XXXrelease - bump href to upgradeXX.html -->
                     56: Do not attempt to go from one release to another via source.
1.63      tb         57: Instead, please follow the <a href="faq/upgrade63.html">upgrade guide</a> for
1.61      tj         58: the release before compiling -stable.
1.23      nick       59:
1.61      tj         60: <h3 id="building">Building OpenBSD -stable</h3>
1.48      tb         61:
                     62: Details on building OpenBSD from source are provided in steps 2 and 3 of the
1.56      tj         63: <!-- XXXrelease - bump man link -->
1.63      tb         64: <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-6.3/release">release(8)</a> manual.
1.49      tb         65: There is also an FAQ on <a href="faq/faq5.html">building the system</a>.
1.61      tj         66: If you have a number of machines to keep on the -stable branch, you may
1.49      tb         67: wish to <a href="faq/faq5.html#Release">make a release</a>.
1.1       jason      68:
1.48      tb         69: <h4>Rebuild the kernel and reboot</h4>
1.1       jason      70:
1.64    ! tb         71: Replace <tt>GENERIC.MP</tt> with <tt>GENERIC</tt> for
        !            72: single-core processor systems.
1.40      tj         73:
1.22      nick       74: <blockquote><pre>
1.63      tb         75: # <b>cd /sys/arch/$(machine)/compile/GENERIC.MP</b>
1.58      tb         76: # <b>make obj</b>
                     77: # <b>make config</b>
                     78: # <b>make && make install</b>
1.40      tj         79: # <b>reboot</b>
1.22      nick       80: </pre></blockquote>
1.1       jason      81:
1.40      tj         82: If your system has trouble booting the new kernel, you can easily go back
                     83: and reboot from the old kernel, now called <tt>obsd</tt>.
                     84:
1.48      tb         85: <h4>Rebuilding the userland</h4>
1.1       jason      86:
1.22      nick       87: <blockquote><pre>
1.40      tj         88: # <b>rm -rf /usr/obj/*</b>
                     89: # <b>cd /usr/src</b>
1.51      tb         90: # <b>make obj && make build</b>
1.22      nick       91: </pre></blockquote>
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