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                     24: <h2><font color="#0000e0">The OpenBSD 3.5 Release:</font></h2>
                     25: <p>
                     26: Released May 1, 2004<br>
                     27: Copyright 1997-2004, Theo de Raadt.<br>
                     28: <font color="#e00000">ISBN 0-9731791-1-9</font>
                     29: <p>
                     30:
                     31: <a href="#new">What's New</a><br>
                     32: <a href="#install">How to install</a><br>
                     33: <a href="#ports">How to use the ports tree</a><br>
                     34: <a href="orders.html">Ordering a CD set</a><br>
                     35:
                     36: <p>
                     37: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
                     38: To get the files for this release:
                     39: <ul>
                     40: <li>Order a CDROM from our <a href="orders.html">ordering system</a>.
                     41: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">The FTP page</a> for
                     42:     a list of mirror machines.
                     43: <li>Go to the <font color="#e00000">pub/OpenBSD/3.5/</font> directory on
                     44:     one of the mirror sites.
                     45: <li>Briefly read the rest of this document.
                     46: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata.html">The 3.5 Errata page</a> for a list
                     47:     of bugs and workarounds.
                     48: <li>See a <a href="plus.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
                     49:     3.4 and 3.5 releases.
                     50: </ul>
                     51: </font></h3>
                     52: <br clear=all>
                     53:
                     54: <strong>Note:</strong> All applicable copyrights and credits can be found
                     55: in the applicable file sources found in the files src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz,
                     56: XF4.tar.gz, or in the files fetched via ports.tar.gz.  The distribution
                     57: files used to build packages from the ports.tar.gz file are not included on
                     58: the CDROM because of lack of space.
                     59: <p>
                     60:
                     61: <a name="new"></a>
                     62: <hr>
                     63: <p>
                     64: <h3><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>
                     65: <p>
                     66: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 3.5.
1.2       deraadt    67: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus.html">changelog</a> leading
1.1       deraadt    68: to 3.5.
                     69: <p>
                     70:
                     71: <ul>
                     72:
1.14      deraadt    73: <li> New platforms:
                     74: <ul>
                     75: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html">OpenBSD/amd64</a>
                     76: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cats.html">OpenBSD/cats</a>
                     77: </ul>
                     78: <p>
                     79:
1.4       deraadt    80: <li>...
1.1       deraadt    81: <p>
                     82:
1.3       mickey     83: <li>The HPPA architecture gets support for many
                     84:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pci">PCI</a>
                     85:     based machines.
                     86: <p>
                     87:
1.1       deraadt    88: <li>Replacement of GNU
1.12      otto       89: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bc">bc(1)</a>,
                     90: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dc">dc(1)</a>,
1.4       deraadt    91: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nm">nm(1)</a> and
                     92: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=size">size(1)</a>
1.1       deraadt    93: commands with BSD licensed equivalents.
                     94: <p>
                     95:
1.5       mcbride    96: <li>A large number of bug fixes, changes, and optimizations to our packet filter
                     97:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf">pf(4)</a>
                     98:     including:
                     99: <ul>
1.19      otto      100: <li>Atomic commits of ruleset changes (reduce the chance of ending up in an
                    101:     inconsistent state).
                    102: <li>A 30 percent reduction in the size of state table entries.
                    103: <li>Source-tracking (limit number of clients and states per client).
                    104: <li>Sticky-address (the flexibility of round-robin with the benefits of
                    105:     source-hash).
                    106: <li>Invert the specific/general socket match order when redirecting to
1.5       mcbride   107:     localhost (Prevents the potential security problem of remote connections
1.19      otto      108:     being identified as local).
1.5       mcbride   109: <li>Significant improvements to interface handling.
                    110: </ul>
                    111: <p>
                    112:
                    113: <li>New tools for high availability and load balancing:
                    114: <ul>
                    115: <li>CARP (the Common Address Redundancy Protocol)
                    116:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=carp">carp(4)</a>
                    117:     allows multiple machines to share responsibility for a given IP address or
                    118:     addresses. If the owner of the address fails, another member of the group
                    119:     will take over for it. A discussion of the history of CARP can be found
                    120:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html">here</a>.
                    121: <li>Additions to the
                    122:     <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pfsync">pfsync(4)</a>
                    123:     interface allow it to synchronise state table entries between two or more
                    124:     firewalls which are operating in parallel, allowing stateful connections
                    125:     to cross any of the firewalls regardless of where the state was initially
                    126:     created.
                    127: </ul>
                    128: <p>
                    129:
1.6       todd      130: <li> XFree86 4.4 unencumbered
1.9       deraadt   131: <p>
1.6       todd      132:
                    133: <li> New functionality:
                    134: <ul>
                    135: <li>New ptm device (see <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pty&sektion=4">pty(4)</a>)
                    136: that allows non-privileged processes to allocate a properly-permissioned pty. No more setuid(root)
                    137: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=xterm&sektion=1">xterm(1)</a>!
1.17      otto      138: <li>The <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=closefrom&sektion=2">closefrom(2)</a>
                    139: system call has been added.
1.6       todd      140: <li>TCP MD5 signatures (used by <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=nc&sektion=1">nc(1)</a>
1.17      otto      141: and <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>).
                    142: <li>i386 and amd64 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pxeboot&sektion=8">pxeboot(8)</a>.
1.19      otto      143: <li>The i386 8GB boot loader limitation has been removed.
1.6       todd      144: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=spamd&sektion=8">spamd(8)</a>
1.16      todd      145: gains <a href="http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/">greylisting</a> support.
1.6       todd      146: <li>Interface 'cloning,' accessed by
                    147: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifconfig&sektion=8">ifconfig(8)</a>
1.19      otto      148: commands <em>create</em> and <em>destroy</em>. E.g. `ifconfig vlan100 create'.
1.17      otto      149: <li>The MAKEDEV(8) manual pages are now generated.
1.18      sturm     150: <li>Complete rewrite of package tools in perl.
1.21      djm       151: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=syslogd&sektion=8">syslogd(8)</a>
                    152: now supports logging to memory buffers, to be read using
                    153: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=syslogc&sektion=8">syslogc(8)</a>.
                    154: This is useful for diskless devices.
1.23      henning   155: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&sektion=4">IPsec</a> ESP in UDP encapsulation
1.6       todd      156: </ul>
                    157: <p>
                    158:
1.19      otto      159: <li> New Privilege Separation Functionality:
1.6       todd      160: <ul>
                    161: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isakmpd&sektion=8">isakmpd(8)</a>
                    162: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=named&sektion=8">named(8)</a>
1.13      todd      163: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pflogd&sektion=8">pflogd(8)</a>
1.6       todd      164: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tcpdump&sektion=8">tcpdump(8)</a>
                    165: </ul>
                    166: <p>
                    167:
                    168: <li> New tools:
                    169: <ul>
1.24    ! henning   170: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sensorsd&sektion=8">sensorsd(8)</a>, monitoring hardware sensors
        !           171: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=procmap&sektion=1">procmap(1)</a>, examine a process' memory map
        !           172: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bgpd&sektion=8">bgpd(8)</a>, implementing the <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1771.txt">BGP4</a> routing protocol
1.10      deraadt   173: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkill&sektion=1">pkill(1)</a> and
1.24    ! henning   174: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pgrep&sektion=1">pgrep(1)</a>, finding or signalling processes by name
1.6       todd      175: </ul>
                    176: <p>
                    177:
1.23      henning   178: <li> Performance improvements:
                    179: <ul>
                    180: <li>improved connection/socket lookup - about 100 times faster at 10000 sockets than 3.4
                    181: <li>TCP SYN cache
                    182: <li>OpenSSL speedup on i386, up to 100% improvement for md5, sha1, blowfish,
                    183:     des, 3des, rsa, dsa and bn
                    184: </ul>
                    185: <p>
                    186:
1.22      djm       187: <li> <a href="http://www.openssh.org">OpenSSH 3.8.1</a>.
1.20      otto      188: <p>
                    189:
                    190: <li> gcc 3.2.2, including local additions like ProPolice support for the
                    191: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html">OpenBSD/amd64</a>,
                    192: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cats.html">OpenBSD/cats</a> and
                    193: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html">OpenBSD/sparc64</a>
                    194: platforms.
                    195: <p>
                    196:
                    197: <li> New and improved drivers, like:
                    198: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ahc&sektion=4">ahc(4)</a>,
                    199: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bce&sektion=4">bce(4)</a>,
                    200: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mpt&sektion=4">mpt(4)</a>,
                    201: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=sis&sektion=4">sis(4)</a>
                    202: and
                    203: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wi&sektion=4">wi(4)</a>.
                    204: <p>
                    205:
1.18      sturm     206: <li> Over 2500 ports, 2300 pre-built packages.
                    207: <p>
                    208:
1.7       todd      209: <li>Many improvements for security and reliability (look for the red
                    210: print in the <a href="plus.html">complete changelog</a>).
                    211: <p>
                    212:
1.19      otto      213: <li>Many improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
                    214: <p>
                    215:
1.20      otto      216: <li> And much more.
1.1       deraadt   217:
                    218: </ul>
                    219:
                    220: <a name="install"></a>
                    221: <hr>
                    222: <p>
                    223: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
                    224: <p>
                    225: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
                    226: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
                    227: form of install.  The instructions for doing an ftp (or other style
                    228: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
                    229: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
                    230: purchased a CDROM instead.
                    231: <p>
                    232:
                    233: <hr>
                    234: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or ftp mirror for
                    235: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 3.5 on your machine:
                    236: <p>
                    237: <ul>
                    238: <li>CD1:3.5/i386/INSTALL.i386
1.2       deraadt   239: <li>CD1:3.5/vax/INSTALL.vax
1.1       deraadt   240: <p>
1.2       deraadt   241: <li>CD2:3.5/amd64/INSTALL.amd64
1.1       deraadt   242: <li>CD2:3.5/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
                    243: <p>
                    244: <li>CD3:3.5/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
                    245: <li>CD3:3.5/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
                    246: <p>
                    247: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
                    248: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
                    249: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
1.2       deraadt   250: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/cats/INSTALL.cats
1.1       deraadt   251: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/mac68k/INSTALL.mac68k
                    252: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
1.2       deraadt   253: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/3.5/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k
1.1       deraadt   254: </ul>
                    255: <hr>
                    256:
                    257: <p>
                    258: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
                    259: use of the "disklabel -E" command.  If you are at all confused when
                    260: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
                    261: <p>
                    262:
                    263: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
                    264: <ul>
                    265: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
                    266: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
                    267: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
1.2       deraadt   268: <i>CD1:3.5/i386/floppy35.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
1.1       deraadt   269:
                    270: <p>
1.2       deraadt   271: Use <i>CD1:3.5/i386/floppyB35.fs</i> instead for greater scsi controller
                    272: support, or <i>CD1:3.5/i386/floppyC35.fs</i> for better laptop support.
1.1       deraadt   273:
                    274: <p>
                    275: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
                    276: read the included INSTALL.i386 document.
                    277:
                    278: <p>
                    279: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the &quot;rawrite&quot; utility located
                    280: at <i>CD:/3.5/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
                    281: use the <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=
                    282: dd&amp;sektion=1">dd(1)</a> utility. The following is an example usage of
                    283: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&amp;sektion=1">dd(1)
                    284: </a>, where the device could be &quot;floppy&quot;, &quot;rfd0c&quot;, or
                    285: &quot;rfd0a&quot;.
                    286:
                    287: <ul><pre>
                    288: # <strong>dd if=&lt;file&gt; of=/dev/&lt;device&gt; bs=32k</strong>
                    289: </pre></ul>
                    290:
                    291: <p>
                    292: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
                    293: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
                    294: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
                    295: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ4.1</a>.
                    296: </ul>
                    297:
                    298: <p>
                    299: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
                    300: <ul>
                    301: Put the CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
                    302: <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
                    303:
                    304: <p>
                    305: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
                    306: /3.5/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
                    307: </ul>
                    308:
                    309: <p>
1.2       deraadt   310: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
                    311: <ul>
                    312: [write a chunk here]
                    313: </ul>
                    314:
                    315: <p>
1.1       deraadt   316: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
                    317: <ul>
                    318: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
                    319: </ul>
                    320:
                    321: <p>
                    322: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
                    323: <ul>
                    324: The 3.5 release of OpenBSD/sparc is located on CD3. To boot off of this CD you
                    325: can use one of the two commands listed below, depending on the version of your
                    326: ROM.
                    327:
                    328: <ul><pre>
                    329: &gt; <strong>boot cdrom 3.5/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
                    330: or
                    331: &gt; <strong>boot sd(0,6,0)3.5/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
                    332: </pre></ul>
                    333:
                    334: <p>
                    335: If your sparc does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
1.2       deraadt   336: To do so you need to write &quot;CD3:3.5/sparc/floppy35.fs&quot; to a floppy.
1.1       deraadt   337: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ4.1</a>. To boot from
                    338: the floppy use one of the two commands listed below, depending on the version of
                    339: your ROM.
                    340:
                    341: <ul><pre>
                    342: &gt; <strong>boot floppy</strong>
                    343: or
                    344: &gt; <strong>boot fd()</strong>
                    345: </pre></ul>
                    346:
                    347: <p>
                    348: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
                    349: will most likely fail.
                    350:
                    351: <p>
                    352: If your sparc doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
                    353: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
                    354: INSTALL.sparc file.
                    355: </ul>
                    356:
                    357: <p>
                    358: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
                    359: <ul>
                    360: Put the CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
                    361:
                    362: <p>
                    363: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
1.2       deraadt   364: <i>CD3:3.5/sparc64/floppy35.fs</i> to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
1.1       deraadt   365: floppy</i>.<br>
                    366: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
                    367: will most likely fail.
                    368:
                    369: <p>
1.2       deraadt   370: You can also write <i>CD3:3.5/sparc64/miniroot35.fs</i> to the swap partition on
1.1       deraadt   371: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
                    372:
                    373: <p>
                    374: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64
                    375: </ul>
                    376:
                    377: <p>
                    378: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
                    379: <ul>
1.2       deraadt   380: <p>Write <i>FTP:3.5/alpha/floppy35.fs</i> or
                    381: <i>FTP:3.5/alpha/floppyB35.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
1.1       deraadt   382: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
                    383:
                    384: <p>
                    385: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
                    386: will most likely fail.
                    387:
                    388: </ul>
                    389:
                    390: <p>
                    391: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hp300:</font></h3>
                    392: <ul>
                    393: <p>
                    394: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
                    395: </ul>
                    396:
                    397: <p>
                    398: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
                    399: <ul>
                    400: <p>
                    401: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
                    402: <a href="hppa.html#netboot">hppa platform page</a>.
                    403: </ul>
                    404:
                    405: <p>
                    406: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mac68k:</font></h3>
                    407: <ul>
                    408: <p>
                    409: Boot MacOS as normal and partition your disk with the appropriate A/UX
                    410: configurations.  Then, extract the Macside utilities from
                    411: <i>FTP:3.5/mac68k/utils</i> onto your hard disk.  Run Mkfs to create your
                    412: filesystems on the A/UX partitions you just made.  Then, use the
                    413: "BSD/Mac68k Installer" to copy all the sets in <i>FTP:3.5/mac68k/</i> onto your
                    414: partitions.  Finally, you will be ready to configure the "BSD/Mac68k
                    415: Booter" with the location of your kernel and boot the system.
                    416: </ul>
                    417:
                    418: <p>
                    419: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k:</font></h3>
                    420: <ul>
                    421: <p>
                    422: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
                    423: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
                    424: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
                    425: for more details.
                    426: </ul>
                    427:
                    428: <p>
1.2       deraadt   429: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme88k:</font></h3>
                    430: <ul>
                    431: <p>
                    432: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
                    433: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
                    434: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
                    435: for more details.
                    436: </ul>
                    437:
                    438: <p>
1.1       deraadt   439: <h3><font color="#e00000">Notes about the source code:</font></h3>
                    440: <ul>
                    441: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src.  This file
                    442: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
                    443: in a separate archive.  To extract:
                    444: <p>
                    445: <ul><pre>
                    446: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
                    447: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
                    448: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
                    449: </pre></ul>
                    450: <p>
                    451: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
                    452: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
                    453: To extract:
                    454: <p>
                    455: <ul><pre>
                    456: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
                    457: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
                    458: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
                    459: </pre></ul>
                    460: <p>
                    461: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout.  Using these trees it
                    462: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
                    463: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
                    464: Using these files
                    465: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
                    466: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
                    467: <p>
                    468: </ul>
                    469: <a name="ports"></a>
                    470: <hr>
                    471: <p>
                    472: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
                    473: <p>
                    474: A ports tree archive is also provided.  To extract:
                    475: <p>
                    476: <ul><pre>
                    477: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
                    478: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
                    479: # <strong>cd ports</strong>
                    480: </pre></ul>
                    481: <p>
                    482: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree.  Go
                    483: read the <a href="ports.html">ports</a> page
                    484: if you know nothing about ports
                    485: at this point.  This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
                    486: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
                    487: OpenBSD ports system.
                    488: <p>
                    489: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
                    490: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&amp;apropos=0&amp;sektion=1&amp;manpath=OpenBSD+Current&amp;arch=i386&amp;format=html">
                    491: cvs(1)</a> if
                    492: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports.  As with our complete
                    493: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs.  So, in
                    494: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
                    495: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
                    496: like:
                    497: <p>
                    498: <ul><pre>
1.2       deraadt   499: # <strong>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvsserver.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_3_5</strong>
1.1       deraadt   500: </pre></ul>
                    501: <p>
                    502: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
                    503: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
                    504: server.]
                    505: <p>
                    506: Note that most ports are available as packages through ftp. Updated
                    507: packages for the 3.5 release will be made available if problems arise.
                    508: <p>
                    509: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
                    510: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
                    511: place to know.
                    512: <p>
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