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<li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:

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<li>XFree86 4.0.3 (and i386 contains 3.3.X servers also, thus providing support

for all chipsets)

<li>gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches)

<li>perl 5.6.0 plus a few fixes.

<li>Apache 1.3.19 (+ patches), mod_ssl 2.8.1, OpenSSL 0.9.5a, DSO support

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<li>XFree86 4.0.3 (and i386 contains 3.3.X servers also, thus providing support for all chipsets)

<li>gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches)

<li>perl 5.6.0 (+ patches)

<li>Apache 1.3.19, mod_ssl 2.8.2, OpenSSL 0.9.6 (+ patches), DSO support

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<li>ipf 3.4.16 (+ patches)

<li>groff 1.15

<li>sendmail 8.11.3

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Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the

OpenBSD ports system.

Certainly, the OpenBSD ports system is not complete. This is because

Certainly, the OpenBSD ports system is not complete. It is doubtful it

the full integration of ports into the OpenBSD environment is still a

will ever be. However, it is growing very fast and getting more stable.

young project as of this release. We believe the ports that are

Almost all ports provided with this release should build without problems

provided here are stable, but it is most important to realize that

on most architectures (over 1200 packages build on i386, for instance).

ports will continue to grow a great deal in functionality in the

future.

As we said, ports will be growing a lot in the future. The ports/

The ports/ directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for cvs(1) if

directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for cvs(1) if you aren't

you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete

familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports. As with our complete source

source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs. So, in

tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs. So, in

order to keep current with it, you must make the ports/ tree

available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command

like:

# cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvsserver.openbsd.org:/cvs update -PAd

# cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvsserver.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_2_9

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[Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here

with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs

server.]

Again, it is important to see the webpage for specific instructions as

Note that most ports are available as packages through ftp. Updated

this is a new service which hasn't yet been ironed out

packages for the 2.9 release will be made available if problems arise.

completely.

Finally, despite ports' youth, help is never far. If you're

If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just

interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just

would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good

place to know.