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                     12: <a href="index.html">
                     13: <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
                     14: 7.0
                     15: </h2>
                     16:
                     17: <table>
                     18: <tr>
                     19: <td>
                     20: <a href="images/XXX.png">
                     21: <img width="227" height="303" src="images/XXX-s.gif" alt="XXX"></a>
                     22: <td>
                     23: Released Oct XXX, 2021. (51st OpenBSD release)<br>
                     24: Copyright 1997-2021, Theo de Raadt.<br>
                     25: <br>
                     26: 7.0 Song:
                     27: <a href="lyrics.html#70">XXX</a>.
                     28: <br>
                     29: Artwork by XXX.
                     30: <br>
                     31: <ul>
                     32: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">the FTP page</a> for
                     33:     a list of mirror machines.
                     34: <li>Go to the <code class=reldir>pub/OpenBSD/7.0/</code> directory on
                     35:     one of the mirror sites.
                     36: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata70.html">the 7.0 errata page</a> for a list
                     37:     of bugs and workarounds.
                     38: <li>See a <a href="plus70.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
1.4     ! jsg        39:     6.9 and 7.0 releases.
1.1       benno      40: <p>
                     41: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/signify.1">signify(1)</a>
                     42:     pubkeys for this release:<p>
                     43:
                     44: <table class=signify>
                     45: <tr><td>
                     46: openbsd-70-base.pub:
                     47: <td>
                     48: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/openbsd-70-base.pub">
                     49: RWR3KL+gSr4QZ5mOvKhcOOgGe61ogHp5PyBOj2RrmyCpqchk9A7NVPzh</a>
                     50: <tr><td>
                     51: openbsd-70-fw.pub:
                     52: RWS8nd7vy+I+fRHtnpxVBeX+P+9rBqJMPvSU6z8LYyAv5p73WcdFXs3B
                     53: <td>
                     54: <tr><td>
                     55: openbsd-70-pkg.pub:
                     56: RWR3iauEtA8/bLN/zfIQhOc5ramL/fARX72S6xw8BwAUebxik7KioCvL
                     57: <td>
                     58: <tr><td>
                     59: openbsd-70-syspatch.pub:
                     60: RWSD33kMDKsQH8j0Q8FzfYk+vsgTKiP8Q5DcrkQQtrZoWg48yxUQgLxU
                     61: <td>
                     62: </table>
                     63: </ul>
                     64: <p>
                     65: All applicable copyrights and credits are in the src.tar.gz,
                     66: sys.tar.gz, xenocara.tar.gz, ports.tar.gz files, or in the
                     67: files fetched via <code>ports.tar.gz</code>.
                     68: </table>
                     69:
                     70: <hr>
                     71:
                     72: <section id=new>
                     73: <h3>What's New</h3>
                     74: <p>
                     75: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 7.0.
                     76: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus70.html">changelog</a> leading
                     77: to 7.0.
                     78:
                     79: <ul>
                     80:
                     81: <li>New/extended platforms:
                     82:   <ul>
1.3       jsg        83:     <li>New <a href="riscv64.html">riscv64</a> platform for 64-bit RISC-V
                     84:         systems.
1.1       benno      85:     <li>Support for the <a href="powerpc64.html">powerpc64</a> platform was improved:
                     86:     <ul>
                     87:        <li>...
                     88:     </ul>
                     89:     <li>The arm64 platform support was improved with the following changes:
                     90:     <ul>
                     91:        <li>...
                     92:     </ul>
                     93:   </ul>
                     94:
                     95: <li>Various kernel improvements:
                     96:   <ul>
                     97:        <li>...
                     98:   </ul>
                     99:
                    100: <li>SMP Improvements
                    101:   <ul>
                    102:        <li>...
                    103:   </ul>
                    104:
                    105: <li>Direct Rendering Manager
                    106:   <ul>
                    107:        <li>...
                    108:   </ul>
                    109:
                    110: <li>VMM/VMD improvements
                    111:   <ul>
                    112:        <li>...
                    113:   </ul>
                    114:
                    115: <li>Various new userland features:
                    116:   <ul>
                    117:        <li>...
                    118:   </ul>
                    119:
                    120: <li>Various bugfixes and tweaks in userland:
                    121:   <ul>
                    122:        <li>...
                    123:   </ul>
                    124:
                    125: <li>Improved hardware support and driver bugfixes, including:
                    126:   <ul>
                    127:        <li>...
                    128:   </ul>
                    129:
                    130: <li>New or improved network hardware support:
                    131:   <ul>
                    132:        <li>...
                    133:   </ul>
                    134:
                    135: <li>Added or improved wireless network drivers:
                    136:   <ul>
                    137:        <li>...
                    138:   </ul>
                    139:
                    140: <li>IEEE 802.11 wireless stack improvements and bugfixes:
                    141:   <ul>
                    142:        <li>...
                    143:   </ul>
                    144:
                    145: <li>Generic network stack improvements and bugfixes:
                    146:   <ul>
                    147:        <li>...
                    148:   </ul>
                    149:
                    150: <li>Installer and upgrade improvements:
                    151:   <ul>
                    152:        <li>...
                    153:  </ul>
                    154:
                    155: <li>Security improvements:
                    156:   <ul>
                    157:        <li>...
                    158:   </ul>
                    159:
                    160: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
                    161:   <ul>
                    162:     <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.8">bgpd(8)</a> daemon saw the following changes:
                    163:     <ul>
                    164:        <li>...
                    165:     </ul>
                    166:
                    167:     <li>...other routing daemons...
                    168:
                    169:     <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/pf.4">pf(4)</a> packet filter and its userland utility:
                    170:     <ul>
                    171:        <li>...
                    172:     </ul>
                    173:
                    174:     <li>IPSEC support in the kernel and the <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/iked.8">iked(8)</a> userland daemon:
                    175:     <ul>
                    176:        <li>...
                    177:     </ul>
                    178:
                    179:     <li>The <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8">httpd(8)</a> webserver saw numerous improvements:
                    180:     <ul>
                    181:        <li>...
                    182:     </ul>
                    183:
                    184:     <li><a
                    185:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/rpki-client.8">rpki-client(8)</a>
                    186:        received the following new features and bugfixes:
                    187:     <ul>
                    188:        <li>...
                    189:     </ul>
                    190:
                    191:     <li>Changes to <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhclient.8">dhclient(8)</a>:
                    192:     <ul>
                    193:        <li>...
                    194:     </ul>
                    195:
                    196:     <li>XXX Two new daemons, <a
                    197:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/dhcpleased.8">dhcpleased(8)</a> and <a
                    198:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/resolvd.8">resolvd(8)</a> were added.
                    199:        These work alongside with <a
                    200:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/slaacd.8">slaacd(8)</a> and <a
                    201:        href="https://man.openbsd.org/unwind.8">unwind(8)</a> to provide a
                    202:        coherent and simple automatic configuration of network interfaces and
                    203:        DNS resolution.<br>
                    204:        The two daemons are not enabled by default for now, but can be tested
                    205:        by enabling them with <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/rcctl.8">rcctl(8)</a>.
                    206:     <ul>
                    207:        <li>...
                    208:     </ul>
                    209:
                    210:     <li>Changes to snmp related tools:
                    211:     <ul>
                    212:        <li>...
                    213:     </ul>
                    214:
                    215:     <li>Other userland network changes:
                    216:     <ul>
                    217:        <li>...
                    218:     </ul>
                    219:   </ul>
                    220:
                    221: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux">tmux(1)</a> improvements and bug fixes:
                    222:   <ul>
                    223:        <li>...
                    224:   </ul>
                    225:
                    226: <li>OpenSMTPD 7.0.0
                    227:   <ul>
                    228:        <li>...
                    229:   </ul>
                    230:
1.2       jsg       231: <li>LibreSSL 3.4.0 XXX
1.1       benno     232:   <ul>
                    233:     <li>New Features
                    234:     <ul>
                    235:        <li>...
                    236:     </ul>
                    237:
                    238:     <li>Portable Improvements
                    239:     <ul>
                    240:        <li>...
                    241:     </ul>
                    242:
                    243:     <li>API and Documentation Enhancements
                    244:     <ul>
                    245:        <li>...
                    246:     </ul>
                    247:
                    248:     <li>Compatibility Changes
                    249:     <ul>
                    250:        <li>...
                    251:     </ul>
                    252:
                    253:     <li>Testing and Proactive Security
                    254:     <ul>
                    255:        <li>...
                    256:     </ul>
                    257:
                    258:     <li>Internal Improvements
                    259:       <ul>
                    260:        <li>...
                    261:       </ul>
                    262:
                    263:     <li>Bug Fixes
                    264:     <ul>
                    265:        <li>...
                    266:     </ul>
                    267:   </ul>
                    268:
1.2       jsg       269: <li>OpenSSH 8.7 XXX
1.1       benno     270:   <ul>
                    271:     <li>Security fixes
                    272:     <ul>
                    273:        <li>...
                    274:     </ul>
                    275:     <li>Potentially incompatible changes
                    276:     <ul>
                    277:        <li>...
                    278:     </ul>
                    279:     <li>New Features
                    280:     <ul>
                    281:        <li>...
                    282:     </ul>
                    283:     <li>Bugfixes
                    284:     <ul>
                    285:        <li>...
                    286:     </ul>
                    287:   </ul>
                    288:
                    289: <li>Ports and packages:
                    290:   <p>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
                    291:   <!-- number of FTP packages minus SHA256, SHA256.sig, index.txt -->
                    292:   <ul style="column-count: 3">
                    293:     <li>aarch64:     ...
                    294:     <li>amd64:       ...
                    295:     <li>arm:         ...
                    296:     <li>i386:        ...
                    297:     <li>mips64:      ...
                    298:     <li>mips64el:    ...
                    299:     <li>powerpc:     ...
                    300:     <li>powerpc64:   ...
                    301:     <li>sparc64:     ...
                    302:   </ul>
                    303:
                    304:   <p>Some highlights:
                    305:   <ul style="column-count: 3">
1.2       jsg       306:     <li>Asterisk 18.6.0
1.1       benno     307:     <li>Audacity 2.4.2
1.2       jsg       308:     <li>CMake 3.20.3
                    309:     <li>Chromium 93.0.4577.82
1.1       benno     310:     <li>Emacs 27.2
1.2       jsg       311:     <li>FFmpeg 4.4
                    312:     <li>GCC 8.4.0 and 11.2.0
                    313:     <li>GHC 8.10.6
                    314:     <li>GNOME 40.4
                    315:     <li>Go 1.17
                    316:     <li>JDK 8u302, 11.0.12 and 16.0.2
                    317:     <li>KDE Applications 21.08.1
                    318:     <li>KDE Frameworks 5.85.0
                    319:     <li>Krita 4.4.8
                    320:     <li>LLVM/Clang 11.1.0
                    321:     <li>LibreOffice 7.2.0.4
1.1       benno     322:     <li>Lua 5.1.5, 5.2.4 and 5.3.6
1.2       jsg       323:     <li>MariaDB 10.6.4
1.1       benno     324:     <li>Mono 6.12.0.122
1.2       jsg       325:     <li>Mozilla Firefox 92.0 and ESR 91.1.0
                    326:     <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 91.1.0
                    327:     <li>Mutt 2.1.3 and NeoMutt 20210205
                    328:     <li>Node.js 12.22.6
1.1       benno     329:     <li>OCaml 4.10.0
1.2       jsg       330:     <li>OpenLDAP 2.4.59
                    331:     <li>PHP 7.3.30, 7.4.23 and 8.0.10
                    332:     <li>Postfix 3.5.11
                    333:     <li>PostgreSQL 13.4
                    334:     <li>Python 2.7.18, 3.8.12 and 3.9.7
                    335:     <li>Qt 5.15.2 and 6.0.4
                    336:     <li>R 4.1.1
                    337:     <li>Ruby 2.6.8, 2.7.4 and 3.0.2
                    338:     <li>Rust 1.55.0
                    339:     <li>SQLite 3.35.5
1.1       benno     340:     <li>Shotcut 21.01.29
1.2       jsg       341:     <li>Sudo 1.9.7p2
                    342:     <li>Suricata 6.0.2
1.1       benno     343:     <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.19 and 8.6.8
                    344:     <li>TeX Live 2020
1.2       jsg       345:     <li>Vim 8.2.3394 and Neovim 0.5.0
1.1       benno     346:     <li>Xfce 4.16
                    347:   </ul>
                    348:   <p>
                    349:
                    350: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
                    351:
                    352: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
                    353:   <ul>
1.2       jsg       354:     <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 1.20.13 + patches,
                    355:         freetype 2.10.4, fontconfig 2.12.4, Mesa 20.1.8, xterm 367,
                    356:         xkeyboard-config 2.20, fonttosfnt 1.2.2 and more)
                    357:     <li>LLVM/Clang 11.1.0 (+ patches)
1.1       benno     358:     <li>GCC 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
                    359:     <li>Perl 5.32.1 (+ patches)
1.2       jsg       360:     <li>NSD 4.3.7
                    361:     <li>Unbound 1.13.2
1.1       benno     362:     <li>Ncurses 5.7
                    363:     <li>Binutils 2.17 (+ patches)
                    364:     <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
                    365:     <li>Awk December 18, 2020 version
1.2       jsg       366:     <li>Expat 2.4.1
1.1       benno     367:   </ul>
                    368:
                    369: </ul>
                    370: </section>
                    371:
                    372: <hr>
                    373:
                    374: <section id=install>
                    375: <h3>How to install</h3>
                    376: <p>
                    377: Please refer to the following files on the mirror site for
                    378: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 7.0 on your machine:
                    379:
                    380: <ul>
                    381: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
                    382:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
                    383: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
                    384:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/amd64/INSTALL.amd64</a>
                    385: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/arm64/INSTALL.arm64">
                    386:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/arm64/INSTALL.arm64</a>
                    387: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/armv7/INSTALL.armv7">
                    388:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/armv7/INSTALL.armv7</a>
                    389: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
                    390:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
                    391: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/i386/INSTALL.i386">
                    392:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/i386/INSTALL.i386</a>
                    393: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
                    394:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
                    395: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
                    396:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
                    397: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
                    398:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
                    399: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
                    400:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
                    401: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
                    402:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
                    403: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/powerpc64/INSTALL.powerpc64">
                    404:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/powerpc64/INSTALL.powerpc64</a>
1.3       jsg       405: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/riscv64/INSTALL.riscv64">
                    406:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/riscv64/INSTALL.riscv64</a>
1.1       benno     407: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.0/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
                    408:        .../OpenBSD/7.0/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64</a>
                    409: </ul>
                    410: </section>
                    411:
                    412: <hr>
                    413:
                    414: <section id=quickinstall>
                    415: <p>
                    416: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the use of
                    417: the "<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel</a> -E" command.
                    418: If you are at all confused when installing OpenBSD, read the relevant
                    419: INSTALL.* file as listed above!
                    420:
                    421: <h3>OpenBSD/alpha:</h3>
                    422:
                    423: <p>
                    424: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install70.iso</i> or
                    425: <i>cd70.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
                    426: Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
                    427:
                    428: <h3>OpenBSD/amd64:</h3>
                    429:
                    430: <p>
                    431: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install70.iso</i> or
                    432: <i>cd70.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
                    433: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
                    434:
                    435: <p>
                    436: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install70.img</i> or
                    437: <i>miniroot70.img</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
                    438:
                    439: <p>
                    440: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
                    441: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
                    442: INSTALL.amd64 document.
                    443:
                    444: <p>
                    445: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
                    446: read INSTALL.amd64.
                    447:
                    448: <h3>OpenBSD/arm64:</h3>
                    449:
                    450: <p>
                    451: Write <i>install70.img</i> or <i>miniroot70.img</i> to a disk and boot from it
                    452: after connecting to the serial console.  Refer to INSTALL.arm64 for more
                    453: details.
                    454:
                    455: <h3>OpenBSD/armv7:</h3>
                    456:
                    457: <p>
                    458: Write a system specific miniroot to an SD card and boot from it after connecting
                    459: to the serial console.  Refer to INSTALL.armv7 for more details.
                    460:
                    461: <h3>OpenBSD/hppa:</h3>
                    462:
                    463: <p>
                    464: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
                    465: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
                    466:
                    467: <h3>OpenBSD/i386:</h3>
                    468:
                    469: <p>
                    470: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install70.iso</i> or
                    471: <i>cd70.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
                    472: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
                    473:
                    474: <p>
                    475: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install70.img</i> or
                    476: <i>miniroot70.img</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
                    477:
                    478: <p>
                    479: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
                    480: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
                    481: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
                    482:
                    483: <p>
                    484: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
                    485: read INSTALL.i386.
                    486:
                    487: <h3>OpenBSD/landisk:</h3>
                    488:
                    489: <p>
                    490: Write <i>miniroot70.img</i> to the start of the CF
                    491: or disk, and boot normally.
                    492:
                    493: <h3>OpenBSD/loongson:</h3>
                    494:
                    495: <p>
                    496: Write <i>miniroot70.img</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
                    497: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
                    498: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
                    499:
                    500: <h3>OpenBSD/luna88k:</h3>
                    501:
                    502: <p>
                    503: Copy 'boot' and 'bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
                    504: from the PROM, and then bsd.rd from the bootloader.
                    505: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
                    506:
                    507: <h3>OpenBSD/macppc:</h3>
                    508:
                    509: <p>
                    510: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
                    511: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
                    512: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
                    513:
                    514: <p>
                    515: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
                    516: /7.0/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
                    517:
                    518: <h3>OpenBSD/octeon:</h3>
                    519:
                    520: <p>
                    521: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
                    522: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
                    523:
                    524: <h3>OpenBSD/powerpc64:</h3>
                    525:
                    526: <p>
                    527: To install, write <i>install70.img</i> or <i>miniroot70.img</i> to a
                    528: USB stick, plug it into the machine and choose the <i>OpenBSD
                    529: install</i> menu item in Petitboot.
                    530: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.powerpc64 for more details.
                    531:
1.3       jsg       532: <h3>OpenBSD/riscv64:</h3>
1.1       benno     533:
                    534: <p>
1.3       jsg       535: To install, write <i>install70.img</i> or <i>miniroot70.img</i> to a
                    536: USB stick, and boot with that drive plugged in.
                    537: Make sure you also have the microSD card plugged in that shipped with the
                    538: HiFive Unmatched board.
                    539: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.riscv64 for more details.
1.1       benno     540:
                    541: <h3>OpenBSD/sparc64:</h3>
                    542:
                    543: <p>
                    544: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, boot from it, and type
                    545: <i>boot cdrom</i>.
                    546:
                    547: <p>
                    548: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
                    549: <i>floppy70.img</i> or <i>floppyB70.img</i>
                    550: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
                    551: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
                    552:
                    553: <p>
                    554: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
                    555: will most likely fail.
                    556:
                    557: <p>
                    558: You can also write <i>miniroot70.img</i> to the swap partition on
                    559: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
                    560:
                    561: <p>
                    562: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
                    563: </section>
                    564:
                    565: <hr>
                    566:
                    567: <section id=upgrade>
                    568: <h3>How to upgrade</h3>
                    569: <p>
1.4     ! jsg       570: If you already have an OpenBSD 6.9 system, and do not want to reinstall,
1.1       benno     571: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
                    572: <a href="faq/upgrade70.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
                    573: </section>
                    574:
                    575: <hr>
                    576:
                    577: <section id=sourcecode>
                    578: <h3>Notes about the source code</h3>
                    579: <p>
                    580: <code>src.tar.gz</code> contains a source archive starting at <code>/usr/src</code>.
                    581: This file contains everything you need except for the kernel sources,
                    582: which are in a separate archive.
                    583: To extract:
                    584: <blockquote><pre>
                    585: # <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src</kbd>
                    586: # <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
                    587: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</kbd>
                    588: </pre></blockquote>
                    589: <p>
                    590: <code>sys.tar.gz</code> contains a source archive starting at <code>/usr/src/sys</code>.
                    591: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
                    592: To extract:
                    593: <blockquote><pre>
                    594: # <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</kbd>
                    595: # <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
                    596: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</kbd>
                    597: </pre></blockquote>
                    598: <p>
                    599: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout.  Using these trees it
                    600: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
                    601: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
                    602: Using these files
                    603: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
                    604: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
                    605: </section>
                    606:
                    607: <hr>
                    608:
                    609: <section id=ports>
                    610: <h3>Ports Tree</h3>
                    611: <p>
                    612: A ports tree archive is also provided.  To extract:
                    613: <blockquote><pre>
                    614: # <kbd>cd /usr</kbd>
                    615: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</kbd>
                    616: </pre></blockquote>
                    617: <p>
                    618: Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
                    619: if you know nothing about ports
                    620: at this point.  This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
                    621: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
                    622: OpenBSD ports system.
                    623: <p>
                    624: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS checkout of our ports.
                    625: As with our complete source tree, our ports tree is available via
                    626: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
                    627: So, in order to keep up to date with the -stable branch, you must make
                    628: the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
                    629: with a command like:
                    630: <blockquote><pre>
                    631: # <kbd>cd /usr/ports</kbd>
                    632: # <kbd>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_7_0</kbd>
                    633: </pre></blockquote>
                    634: <p>
                    635: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
                    636: server.]
                    637: <p>
                    638: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
                    639: ports for the 7.0 release will be made available if problems arise.
                    640: <p>
                    641: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
                    642: would like to know more, the mailing list
                    643: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
                    644: </section>