Build instructions

[Nick Holland <nick@holland-consulting.net>]

I have just committed a number of patches which change where you get
instructions on building OpenBSD from source.

In the past, this information was scattered all over -- release(8),
anoncvs.html, upgrade-minifaq.html, bits in the FAQ, etc.
Upgrade-minifaq.html had some of the best, but unfortunately, linked
closely with with building -current, and with upgrading between
releases, which sent a lot of people trying to build -stable (or upgrade
between versions) off in wrong directions.  It also encouraged people to
think of compiling from source as a good way of upgrading.

This is now changed.  Hopefully, for the better. :)


Instructions on building from source are now located in
   http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html
You will note that there is a heavy emphasis on binary upgrades.

Information about following -current is in
   http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html
This page is primarily of interest to developers and people using
-current, there should be no reason for Joe Average User to be here.

Information about upgrading from previous versions of OpenBSD to the
most recent -release:
   http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade36.html
(no, this is not very new)

upgrade-minifaq.html now is just a stub which points you in the
appropriate directions.

Hopefully, it is now clear that building from source is to be a
relatively special-purpose task, and if done properly for the tasks
where it is REQUIRED (building -stable), it should be very simple.
Otherwise, building from source is very much not required.  Even when
someone choses to build -current, they should be starting from a very
recent snapshot, and it should thus be a fairly simple task (and again,
rarely will someone need to install a snapshot, then build from source).

Hopefully, this makes all our lives a bit easier.


Yes, there is still some cleanup to do.  There are still some
redundancies I haven't figured out what (if anything) to do with.

Nick.