Friday, October 06, 2023

Re: Understanding -current as 7.4 is released

Marc Espie <marc.espie.openbsd@gmail.com> wrote:

> Specifically, OpenBSD decides whether it's running "bleeding edge" current
> (snapshot) or a release/stable based on what the kernel says.

OpenBSD does not decide. It has labels to delineate transitions in the
process. Maybe we should go versionless? Noone would have a clue as to
what they are running, but there would be no confusion right?

Anyways, OpenBSD doesn't decide anything. It is pkg_add that decides what
to do.

It is the code you wrote.

You designed this semantic of looking (very narrowly) at this version number.

You added -Dsnap

You didn't write code to look for more detailed factors for the automatic
directory selection decision.

But I guess you want to confuse people. I'm glad OpenBSD isn't confusing
people further.

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