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1.5       deraadt    21: <a href="images/Bugbusters.jpg">
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                     24: <h2><font color="#0000e0">The OpenBSD 5.1 Release:</font></h2>
                     25: <p>
                     26: To be released May 1, 2012<br>
                     27: Copyright 1997-2012, Theo de Raadt.<br>
                     28: <font color="#e00000">ISBN 978-0-9784475-9-5</font>
                     29: <br>
                     30: <a href="lyrics.html#51">5.1 Song: "Bug Busters"</a>
                     31: <p>
                     32:
                     33: <a href="#new">What's New</a><br>
                     34: <a href="#install">How to install</a><br>
                     35: <a href="#upgrade">How to upgrade</a><br>
                     36: <a href="#ports">How to use the ports tree</a><br>
                     37: <a href="orders.html">Ordering a CD set</a><br>
                     38:
                     39: <p>
                     40: <h3><font color="#0000e0">
                     41: To get the files for this release:
                     42: <ul>
                     43: <li>Order a CDROM from our <a href="orders.html">ordering system</a>.
                     44: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">The FTP page</a> for
                     45:     a list of mirror machines.
                     46: <li>Go to the <font color="#e00000">pub/OpenBSD/5.1/</font> directory on
                     47:     one of the mirror sites.
                     48: <li>Briefly read the rest of this document.
                     49: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata51.html">The 5.1 Errata page</a> for a list
                     50:     of bugs and workarounds.
                     51: <li>See a <a href="plus51.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
                     52:     5.0 and 5.1 releases.
                     53: </ul>
                     54: </font></h3>
                     55: <br clear=all>
                     56:
                     57: <strong>Note:</strong> All applicable copyrights and credits can be found
                     58: in the applicable file sources found in the files src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz,
                     59: xenocara.tar.gz, or in the files fetched via ports.tar.gz.  The distribution
                     60: files used to build packages from the ports.tar.gz file are not included on
                     61: the CDROM because of lack of space.
                     62: <p>
                     63:
                     64: <a name="new"></a>
                     65: <hr>
                     66: <p>
                     67: <h3><font color="#0000e0">What's New</font></h3>
                     68: <p>
                     69: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 5.1.
                     70: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus51.html">changelog</a> leading
                     71: to 5.1.
                     72: <p>
                     73:
                     74: <ul>
1.3       guenther   75: <li>Improved hardware support, including:
                     76:     <ul>
                     77:     <li>[Not written yet]
1.4       deraadt    78:     </ul>
1.3       guenther   79: <p>
                     80:
                     81: <li>Generic network stack improvements:
                     82:     <ul>
                     83:     <li>[Not written yet]
1.4       deraadt    84:     </ul>
1.3       guenther   85: <p>
                     86: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
                     87:     <ul>
                     88:     <li>fstat now displays routing table ID and socket-splicing information and ps can display routing table ID.
                     89:     <li>[Not written yet]
1.4       deraadt    90:     </ul>
1.3       guenther   91: <p>
1.4       deraadt    92:
1.3       guenther   93: <li><a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&amp;sektion=4">pf(4)</a> improvements:
                     94:     <ul>
                     95:     <li>[Not written yet]
1.4       deraadt    96:     </ul>
1.3       guenther   97: <p>
                     98: <li>SCSI improvements:
                     99:     <ul>
                    100:     <li>[Not written yet]
1.4       deraadt   101:     </ul>
1.3       guenther  102: <p>
                    103: <li>Assorted improvements:
                    104:     <ul>
                    105:     <li>Improved locale support.
                    106:     <li>Support for MSG_NOSIGNAL
                    107:     <li>KERN_PROC_CWD sysctl() for fetching the path to a process's working directory.
                    108:     <li>Improved fnmatch(), glob(), and regcomp() implementations to resist DoS attacks.
                    109:     <li>Lots of HISTORY and AUTHORS information added to manpages.
                    110:     <li>Improved checking of file-offset wraparound.
                    111:     <li>pwrite/pwritev now correctly ignored O_APPEND.
                    112:     <li>Improved conformance of header files with standards.
                    113:     <li>Improved cancelation support in both user-threads (libpthread) and rthreads.
                    114:     <li>Improved correctness of execing, coredumping, signal delivery, alternate signal stacks, blocking socket accepts(), mutexes and condition variables, per-thread errno, symbol binding, and ktracing when rthreads are in use.
                    115:     <li>Architecture-independent kernel support for thread-control-block handling for rthreads.
                    116:     <li>Small improvements to Linux compat (only available on i386).
1.4       deraadt   117:     </ul>
1.3       guenther  118: <p>
                    119: <li>Install/Upgrade process changes:
                    120:     <ul>
                    121:     <li>[Not written yet]
1.4       deraadt   122:     </ul>
1.1       deraadt   123: <p>
                    124:
1.2       deraadt   125: <li>Over ?,??? ports, major robustness and speed improvements in package tools.
1.1       deraadt   126: <li>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
                    127:     <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=2 width="95%">
                    128:     <tr>
                    129:     <td valign="top" width="25%">
                    130:     <ul>
                    131:       <li>i386:       7229
                    132:       <li>sparc64:    6599
                    133:       <li>alpha:      5943
                    134:     </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
1.2       deraadt   135:       <li>sh:         ?
1.1       deraadt   136:       <li>amd64:      7181
                    137:       <li>powerpc:    6852
                    138:     </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
                    139:       <li>sparc:      4152
1.2       deraadt   140:       <li>arm:        ?
1.1       deraadt   141:       <li>hppa:       6159
                    142:     </ul></td><td valign=top width="25%"><ul>
                    143:       <li>vax:        2199
1.2       deraadt   144:       <li>mips64:     ?
1.1       deraadt   145:       <li>mips64el:   5807
                    146:   </ul></td></tr></table>
                    147: <p>
                    148:
                    149: <li>Some highlights:
                    150:     <ul>
                    151:     <li>Gnome 2.32.2                    <li>KDE 3.5.10
                    152:     <li>Xfce 4.8.0                      <li>MySQL 5.1.54
                    153:     <li>PostgreSQL 9.0.5                <li>Postfix 2.8.4
                    154:     <li>OpenLDAP 2.3.43 and 2.4.25      <li>Mozilla Firefox 3.5.19, 3.6.18 and 5.0
                    155:     <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 5.0         <li>GHC 7.0.4
                    156:     <li>LibreOffice 3.4.1.3             <li>Emacs 21.4, 22.3 and 23.3
                    157:     <li>Vim 7.3.154                     <li>PHP 5.2.17 and 5.3.6
                    158:     <li>Python 2.4.6, 2.5.4 and 2.7.1   <li>Ruby 1.8.7.352 and 1.9.2.200
                    159:     <li>Tcl 8.5.9                       <li>Jdk 1.7
                    160:     <li>Mono 2.10.2                     <li>Chromium 12.0.742.122
                    161:     <li>Groff 1.21
                    162:     </ul>
                    163: <p>
                    164:
                    165: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
                    166:     <li>Base system and Xenocara manuals are now installed as source code,
                    167:       making <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=grep&amp;sektion=1">grep(1)</a> more useful in /usr/share/man/ and /usr/X11R6/man/.
                    168:     <li>If both formatted and source versions of manuals are installed,
                    169:       <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=man&amp;sektion=1">man(1)</a> automatically displays the newer version of each page.
                    170:
                    171:  - The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
1.6     ! matthieu  172:     <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.6 with xserver 1.11.4 + patches,
        !           173:       freetype 2.4.8, fontconfig 2.8.0, Mesa 7.10.3, xterm 276,
        !           174:       xkeyboard-config 2.5 and more)
1.1       deraadt   175:     <li>Gcc 2.95.3 (+ patches), 3.3.5 (+ patches) and 4.2.1 (+patches)
                    176:     <li>Perl 5.12.2 (+ patches)
                    177:     <li>Our improved and secured version of Apache 1.3, with
                    178:       SSL/TLS and DSO support
                    179:     <li>OpenSSL 1.0.0a (+ patches)
                    180:     <li>Sendmail 8.14.5, with libmilter
                    181:     <li>Bind 9.4.2-P2 (+ patches)
                    182:     <li>Lynx 2.8.7rel.2 with HTTPS and IPv6 support (+ patches)
                    183:     <li>Sudo 1.7.2p8
                    184:     <li>Ncurses 5.7
                    185:     <li>Heimdal 0.7.2 (+ patches)
                    186:     <li>Arla 0.35.7
                    187:     <li>Binutils 2.15 (+ patches)
                    188:     <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
                    189:     </ul>
                    190:
                    191: </ul>
                    192:
                    193: <a name="install"></a>
                    194: <hr>
                    195: <p>
                    196: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to install</font></h3>
                    197: <p>
                    198: Following this are the instructions which you would have on a piece of
                    199: paper if you had purchased a CDROM set instead of doing an alternate
                    200: form of install.  The instructions for doing an FTP (or other style
                    201: of) install are very similar; the CDROM instructions are left intact
                    202: so that you can see how much easier it would have been if you had
                    203: purchased a CDROM instead.
                    204: <p>
                    205:
                    206: <hr>
                    207: Please refer to the following files on the three CDROMs or FTP mirror for
                    208: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 5.1 on your machine:
                    209: <p>
                    210: <ul>
                    211: <li>CD1:5.1/i386/INSTALL.i386
                    212: <p>
                    213: <li>CD2:5.1/amd64/INSTALL.amd64
                    214: <li>CD2:5.1/macppc/INSTALL.macppc
                    215: <p>
                    216: <li>CD3:5.1/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64
                    217: <p>
                    218: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.1/alpha/INSTALL.alpha
                    219: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.1/armish/INSTALL.armish
                    220: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.1/hp300/INSTALL.hp300
                    221: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.1/hppa/INSTALL.hppa
                    222: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.1/landisk/INSTALL.landisk
                    223: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.1/loongson/INSTALL.loongson
                    224: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.1/mvme68k/INSTALL.mvme68k
                    225: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.1/mvme88k/INSTALL.mvme88k
                    226: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.1/sgi/INSTALL.sgi
                    227: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.1/socppc/INSTALL.socppc
                    228: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.1/sparc/INSTALL.sparc
                    229: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.1/vax/INSTALL.vax
                    230: <li>FTP:.../OpenBSD/5.1/zaurus/INSTALL.zaurus
                    231: </ul>
                    232: <hr>
                    233:
                    234: <p>
                    235: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the
                    236: use of the "disklabel -E" command.  If you are at all confused when
                    237: installing OpenBSD, read the relevant INSTALL.* file as listed above!
                    238: <p>
                    239:
                    240: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/i386:</font></h3>
                    241: <ul>
                    242: Play with your BIOS options to enable booting from a CD. The OpenBSD/i386
                    243: release is on CD1. If your BIOS does not support booting from CD, you will need
                    244: to create a boot floppy to install from. To create a boot floppy write
                    245: <i>CD1:5.1/i386/floppy51.fs</i> to a floppy and boot via the floppy drive.
                    246:
                    247: <p>
                    248: Use <i>CD1:5.1/i386/floppyB51.fs</i> instead for greater SCSI controller
                    249: support, or <i>CD1:5.1/i386/floppyC51.fs</i> for better laptop support.
                    250:
                    251: <p>
                    252: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
                    253: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
                    254: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
                    255:
                    256: <p>
                    257: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
                    258: read INSTALL.i386.
                    259:
                    260: <p>
                    261: To make a boot floppy under MS-DOS, use the &quot;rawrite&quot; utility located
                    262: at <i>CD1:5.1/tools/rawrite.exe</i>. To make the boot floppy under a Unix OS,
                    263: use the
                    264: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&amp;sektion=1">dd(1)</a>
                    265: utility. The following is an example usage of
                    266: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dd&amp;sektion=1">dd(1)</a>,
                    267: where the device could be &quot;floppy&quot;, &quot;rfd0c&quot;, or
                    268: &quot;rfd0a&quot;.
                    269:
                    270: <ul><pre>
                    271: # <strong>dd if=&lt;file&gt; of=/dev/&lt;device&gt; bs=32k</strong>
                    272: </pre></ul>
                    273:
                    274: <p>
                    275: Make sure you use properly formatted perfect floppies with NO BAD BLOCKS or
                    276: your install will most likely fail. For more information on creating a boot
                    277: floppy and installing OpenBSD/i386 please refer to
                    278: <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
                    279: </ul>
                    280:
                    281: <p>
                    282: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/amd64:</font></h3>
                    283: <ul>
                    284: The 5.1 release of OpenBSD/amd64 is located on CD2.
                    285: Boot from the CD to begin the install - you may need to adjust
                    286: your BIOS options first.
                    287: If you can't boot from the CD, you can create a boot floppy to install from.
                    288: To do this, write <i>CD2:5.1/amd64/floppy51.fs</i> to a floppy, then
                    289: boot from the floppy drive.
                    290:
                    291: <p>
                    292: If you can't boot from a CD or a floppy disk,
                    293: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
                    294: INSTALL.amd64 document.
                    295:
                    296: <p>
                    297: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
                    298: read INSTALL.amd64.
                    299: </ul>
                    300:
                    301: <p>
                    302: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/macppc:</font></h3>
                    303: <ul>
                    304: Put CD2 in your CDROM drive and poweron your machine while holding down the
                    305: <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
                    306:
                    307: <p>
                    308: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
                    309: /5.1/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
                    310: </ul>
                    311:
                    312: <p>
                    313: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc64:</font></h3>
                    314: <ul>
                    315: Put CD3 in your CDROM drive and type <i>boot cdrom</i>.
                    316:
                    317: <p>
                    318: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
                    319: <i>CD3:5.1/sparc64/floppy51.fs</i> or <i>CD3:5.1/sparc64/floppyB51.fs</i>
                    320: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
                    321: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
                    322:
                    323: <p>
                    324: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
                    325: will most likely fail.
                    326:
                    327: <p>
                    328: You can also write <i>CD3:5.1/sparc64/miniroot51.fs</i> to the swap partition on
                    329: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
                    330:
                    331: <p>
                    332: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
                    333: </ul>
                    334:
                    335: <p>
                    336: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/alpha:</font></h3>
                    337: <ul>
                    338: <p>Write <i>FTP:5.1/alpha/floppy51.fs</i> or
                    339: <i>FTP:5.1/alpha/floppyB51.fs</i> (depending on your machine) to a diskette and
                    340: enter <i>boot dva0</i>. Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
                    341:
                    342: <p>
                    343: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
                    344: will most likely fail.
                    345:
                    346: </ul>
                    347:
                    348: <p>
                    349: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/armish:</font></h3>
                    350: <ul>
                    351: <p>
                    352: After connecting a serial port, Thecus can boot directly from the network
                    353: either tftp or http. Configure the network using fconfig, reset,
                    354: then load bsd.rd, see INSTALL.armish for specific details.
                    355: IOData HDL-G can only boot from an EXT-2 partition. Boot into linux
                    356: and copy 'boot' and bsd.rd into the first partition on wd0 (hda1)
                    357: then load and run bsd.rd, preserving the wd0i (hda1) ext2fs partition.
                    358: More details are available in INSTALL.armish.
                    359: </ul>
                    360:
                    361: <p>
                    362: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hp300:</font></h3>
                    363: <ul>
                    364: <p>
                    365: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hp300.
                    366: </ul>
                    367:
                    368: <p>
                    369: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/hppa:</font></h3>
                    370: <ul>
                    371: <p>
                    372: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
                    373: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
                    374: </ul>
                    375:
                    376: <p>
                    377: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/landisk:</font></h3>
                    378: <ul>
                    379: <p>
                    380: Write <i>miniroot51.fs</i> to the start of the CF
                    381: or disk, and boot normally.
                    382: </ul>
                    383:
                    384: <p>
                    385: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/loongson:</font></h3>
                    386: <ul>
                    387: <p>
                    388: Write <i>miniroot51.fs</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
                    389: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
                    390: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
                    391: </ul>
                    392: <p>
                    393:
                    394: <p>
                    395: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme68k:</font></h3>
                    396: <ul>
                    397: <p>
                    398: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
                    399: The network boot requires a MVME68K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
                    400: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme68k
                    401: for more details.
                    402: </ul>
                    403:
                    404: <p>
                    405: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/mvme88k:</font></h3>
                    406: <ul>
                    407: <p>
                    408: You can create a bootable installation tape or boot over the network.<br>
                    409: The network boot requires a MVME88K BUG version that supports the <i>NIOT</i>
                    410: and <i>NBO</i> debugger commands. Follow the instructions in INSTALL.mvme88k
                    411: for more details.
                    412: </ul>
                    413:
                    414: <p>
                    415: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sgi:</font></h3>
                    416: <ul>
                    417: <p>
                    418: To install on an O2, burn cd51.iso on a CD-R, put it in the CD drive of your
                    419: machine and select <i>Install System Software</i> from the System Maintenance
                    420: menu.
                    421:
                    422: <p>
                    423: On other systems, or if your machine doesn't have a CD drive, you can
                    424: setup a DHCP/tftp network server, and boot using "bootp()/bsd.rd.IP##" using
                    425: the kernel matching your system type.
                    426: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.sgi for more details.
                    427: </ul>
                    428:
                    429: <p>
                    430: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/socppc:</font></h3>
                    431: <ul>
                    432: <p>
                    433: After connecting a serial port, boot over the network via DHCP/tftp.
                    434: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.socppc for more details.
                    435: </ul>
                    436:
                    437: <p>
                    438: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/sparc:</font></h3>
                    439: <ul>
                    440: Boot from one of the provided install ISO images, using one of the two
                    441: commands listed below, depending on the version of your ROM.
                    442:
                    443: <ul><pre>
                    444: ok <strong>boot cdrom 5.1/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
                    445: or
                    446: &gt; <strong>b sd(0,6,0)5.1/sparc/bsd.rd</strong>
                    447: </pre></ul>
                    448:
                    449: <p>
                    450: If your SPARC system does not have a CD drive, you can alternatively boot from floppy.
                    451: To do so you need to write <i>floppy51.fs</i> to a floppy.
                    452: For more information see <a href="faq/faq4.html#MkFlop">FAQ 4.3.2</a>.
                    453: To boot from the floppy use one of the two commands listed below,
                    454: depending on the version of your ROM.
                    455:
                    456: <ul><pre>
                    457: ok <strong>boot floppy</strong>
                    458: or
                    459: &gt; <strong>b fd()</strong>
                    460: </pre></ul>
                    461:
                    462: <p>
                    463: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
                    464: will most likely fail.
                    465:
                    466: <p>
                    467: If your SPARC system doesn't have a floppy drive nor a CD drive, you can either
                    468: setup a bootable tape, or install via network, as told in the
                    469: INSTALL.sparc file.
                    470: </ul>
                    471:
                    472: <p>
                    473: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/vax:</font></h3>
                    474: <ul>
                    475: Boot over the network via mopbooting as described in INSTALL.vax.
                    476: </ul>
                    477:
                    478: <p>
                    479: <h3><font color="#e00000">OpenBSD/zaurus:</font></h3>
                    480: <ul>
                    481: <p>
                    482: Using the Linux built-in graphical ipkg installer, install the
                    483: openbsd51_arm.ipk package.  Reboot, then run it.  Read INSTALL.zaurus
                    484: for a few important details.
                    485: </ul>
                    486:
                    487: <p>
                    488: <h3><font color="#e00000">Notes about the source code:</font></h3>
                    489: <ul>
                    490: src.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src.  This file
                    491: contains everything you need except for the kernel sources, which are
                    492: in a separate archive.  To extract:
                    493: <p>
                    494: <ul><pre>
                    495: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src</strong>
                    496: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
                    497: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</strong>
                    498: </pre></ul>
                    499: <p>
                    500: sys.tar.gz contains a source archive starting at /usr/src/sys.
                    501: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
                    502: To extract:
                    503: <p>
                    504: <ul><pre>
                    505: # <strong>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</strong>
                    506: # <strong>cd /usr/src</strong>
                    507: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</strong>
                    508: </pre></ul>
                    509: <p>
                    510: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout.  Using these trees it
                    511: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
                    512: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
                    513: Using these files
                    514: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
                    515: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
                    516: <p>
                    517: </ul>
                    518:
                    519: <a name="upgrade"></a>
                    520: <hr>
                    521: <p>
                    522: <h3><font color="#0000e0">How to upgrade</font></h3>
                    523: <p>
1.2       deraadt   524: If you already have an OpenBSD 5.0 system, and do not want to reinstall,
1.1       deraadt   525: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
                    526: <a href="faq/upgrade51.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
                    527:
                    528: <a name="ports"></a>
                    529: <hr>
                    530: <p>
                    531: <h3><font color="#0000e0">Ports Tree</font></h3>
                    532: <p>
                    533: A ports tree archive is also provided.  To extract:
                    534: <p>
                    535: <ul><pre>
                    536: # <strong>cd /usr</strong>
                    537: # <strong>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</strong>
                    538: # <strong>cd ports</strong>
                    539: </pre></ul>
                    540: <p>
                    541: The <i>ports/</i> subdirectory is a checkout of the OpenBSD ports tree.  Go
                    542: read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
                    543: if you know nothing about ports
                    544: at this point.  This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
                    545: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
                    546: OpenBSD ports system.
                    547: <p>
                    548: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS (see the manpage for
                    549: <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">
                    550: cvs(1)</a> if
                    551: you aren't familiar with CVS) checkout of our ports.  As with our complete
                    552: source tree, our ports tree is available via anoncvs.  So, in
                    553: order to keep current with it, you must make the <i>ports/</i> tree
                    554: available on a read-write medium and update the tree with a command
                    555: like:
                    556: <p>
                    557: <ul><pre>
1.2       deraadt   558: # <strong>cd [portsdir]/; cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_5_1</strong>
1.1       deraadt   559: </pre></ul>
                    560: <p>
                    561: [Of course, you must replace the local directory and server name here
                    562: with the location of your ports collection and a nearby anoncvs
                    563: server.]
                    564: <p>
                    565: Note that most ports are available as packages through FTP. Updated
                    566: packages for the 5.1 release will be made available if problems arise.
                    567: <p>
                    568: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
                    569: would like to know more, the mailing list ports@openbsd.org is a good
                    570: place to know.
                    571: <p>
                    572:
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