From: STeve Andre' (andresmsu.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 12 2007 - 14:46:08 CST

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On Wednesday 12 December 2007 12:25:40 Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 08:35:50AM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> > > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Joe wrote:
> > > >Wow. I didn't know this changed.
> > >
> > > This was announced on ports IIRC.
> > >
> > > >So if there are security bugs in a package or port shipped with
> > > > OpenBSD 4.2, there will be no updated package or updated port
> > > > available?
> > >
> > > That is correct.
> >
> > Now, this will prevent me from upgrading to 4.2.
>
> So you assume that staying with 4.1 (or previous releases) is a better
> spot for you to remain.
>
> Right......

You really don't want to do that. Yes, not having updates to the
packages in -stable is unforunate. But if you don't upgrade to 4.2,
you're missing out on all the package changes since 4.1, *and* all
the changes to OpenBSD itself. Take a look at
   http://cvs.openbsd.org/plus42.html
to see them. There are at least 500 items there. Not upgrading
because 4.2 doesn't have updated packages since it came out
just doesn't make sense.

--STeve Andre'

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