Daniel Jakots <danj@chown.me> wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Apr 2020 19:05:31 +0000 (UTC), Chris Ross
> <cross+openbsd@distal.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello all. I am running a OpenBSD 6.6 that I installed late last
> > year. I was recently trying to make sure I'd updated my smtpd to
> > 6.6.4, based on earlier security announcement. As I'm running on a
> > sparc64, syspatch doesn't work. While I'd love to talk about
> > rectifying that, that's a bigger issue.
> >
> > For now, I figured I would get the -stable branch (OPENBSD_6_6) and
> > that would have an updated smtpd I could install. But, I find that
> > that branch only have smtpd 6.6.0 in it. I was of the impression
> > that was the stable branch, and as such it should get updates,
> > especially including security updates.
> >
> > Let me know how I should track important updates for my system,
> > without syspatch support for my arch.
>
> The syspatch creation process includes committing to the
> (old)stable branch. AFAIK, what happened here is that the fixes were
> backported but the version wasn't bumped.
Because the patch didn't create a version.
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