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14: <i>Open</i><b>BSD</b></a>
15: 7.2
16: </h2>
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18: <table>
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20: <td>
21: <a href="images/XXX.png">
22: <img width="227" height="303" src="images/XXX-s.gif" alt="XXX"></a>
23: <td>
24: Released Oct 20, 2022. (53rd OpenBSD release)<br>
25: Copyright 1997-2022, Theo de Raadt.<br>
26: <br>
27: Artwork by Luc Houweling.
28: <br>
29: <ul>
30: <li>See the information on <a href="ftp.html">the FTP page</a> for
31: a list of mirror machines.
32: <li>Go to the <code class=reldir>pub/OpenBSD/7.2/</code> directory on
33: one of the mirror sites.
34: <li>Have a look at <a href="errata72.html">the 7.2 errata page</a> for a list
35: of bugs and workarounds.
36: <li>See a <a href="plus72.html">detailed log of changes</a> between the
37: 7.1 and 7.2 releases.
38: <p>
39: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/signify.1">signify(1)</a>
40: pubkeys for this release:<p>
41:
42: <table class=signify>
43: <tr><td>
44: openbsd-72-base.pub:
45: <td>
46: <a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/openbsd-72-base.pub">
47: RWQTKNnK3CZZ8Lid7/kWPO1WxjEsTeuxiXbJSSg6RDir9OJmV+t7GrOo
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49: openbsd-72-fw.pub:
50: <td>
51: RWRvwsB/ZxwZxiQBgNVhuCnEacKE1MhrcDX25jFccqaj0pxsY9oIPJq4
52: <tr><td>
53: openbsd-72-pkg.pub:
54: <td>
55: RWSyNc+EwQQo5bZ5XtDpnk0FUl8NrIl+Ocq4FV/5VTvP9rOgHzKEnBx0
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57: openbsd-72-syspatch.pub:
58: <td>
59: RWQuBB7PRAc2Zy+C7VAynLuan8WDVtQ9R4xLpl8yjf1zxfqEBRRJ+66w
60: </table>
61: </ul>
62: <p>
63: All applicable copyrights and credits are in the src.tar.gz,
64: sys.tar.gz, xenocara.tar.gz, ports.tar.gz files, or in the
65: files fetched via <code>ports.tar.gz</code>.
66: </table>
67:
68: <hr>
69:
70: <section id=new>
71: <h3>What's New</h3>
72: <p>
73: This is a partial list of new features and systems included in OpenBSD 7.2.
74: For a comprehensive list, see the <a href="plus72.html">changelog</a> leading
75: to 7.2.
76:
77: <ul>
78:
79: <li>New/extended platforms:
80: <ul>
1.4 jsg 81: <li>Added support for Ampere Altra
82: <li>Added support for Apple M2
83: <li>Added support for Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 (SC8280XP)
1.1 deraadt 84: <li>...
85: </ul>
86:
87: <li>Various kernel improvements:
88: <ul>
1.9 bluhm 89: <li>pf(4) automatically allows IGMP and ICMP6 MLD packets with
90: router alert option.
91: Special allow-opts rules are no longer needed for multicast
92: discovery.
93: <li>Implement "show all routes" to print routing tables in ddb(4).
94: <li>Count dropped network packets due to low memory in netstat(1).
1.1 deraadt 95: <li>...
96: </ul>
97:
98: <li>SMP Improvements
99: <ul>
1.9 bluhm 100: <li>Make route timer MP safe and use pool rttmr.
101: <li>Use kernel lock to protect parts of ARP, ND6 and PPPoE that
102: are not MP safe.
103: Lookup of existing ARP entry is MP safe and can run in parallel.
104: <li>Start up to 4 softnet tasks to run IP input and forwarding
105: in parallel on multiple cores.
106: <li>Run IPv4 packet reassembly in parallel.
107: <li>Run IPv6 hop-by-hop options processing in parallel.
108: <li>Add a mutex to rate limiting functions to make them MP safe.
109: <li>Introduce mutex and reference counter for internet protocol
110: control block.
111: <li>Protect UDP, raw IP, and divert packet input routines
112: with a per socket mutex.
113: <li>Protect recv(2) system call for UDP and raw IP packets with
114: a per socket mutex and shared netlock.
115: Allows to receive packets while forwarding in parallel.
116: <li>Protect multicast deliver loop for UDP and raw IP sockets with rwlock.
117: <li>Only grab netlock in IGMP and MDL6 timer when necessary.
118: <li>TCP slow timer runs without netlock.
119: <li>Rework rwlock so that a writer will get the lock eventually.
120: Readers cannot share the lock forever.
121: This prevents starvation of the writer.
122: <li>Run interface media ioctl with shared netlock so packets
123: can be processed while running ifconfig(8).
124: <li>btrace(8) can be used to debug reference counting.
125: <li>Use MP safe refcount for interface addresses.
1.1 deraadt 126: <li>...
127: </ul>
128:
129: <li>Direct Rendering Manager
130: <ul>
1.5 jsg 131: <li>Updated <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/drm.4">drm(4)</a>
132: to Linux 5.15.69
133: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/inteldrm.4">inteldrm(4)</a>:
134: support for Alder Lake, Raptor Lake
1.1 deraadt 135: <li>...
136: </ul>
137:
138: <li>VMM/VMD improvements
139: <ul>
140: <li>...
141: </ul>
142:
143: <li>Various new userland features:
144: <ul>
145: <li>...
146: </ul>
147:
148: <li>Various bugfixes and tweaks in userland:
149: <ul>
150: <li>...
151: </ul>
152:
153: <li>Improved hardware support and driver bugfixes, including:
154: <ul>
1.7 jsg 155: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/arm64/aplaudio.4">aplaudio(4)</a>
156: driver for Apple audio subsystem.
157: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/arm64/aplmca.4">aplmca(4)</a>
158: driver for Apple MCA controller.
159: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/arm64/aplsart.4">aplsart(4)</a>
160: driver for Apple SART address filter.
161: <li>New alpdc, apldchidev, apldckbd, apldcms, and aplrtk drivers for
162: keyboard and trackpad on Apple M2 laptops.
163: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/arm64/qcgpio.4">qcgpio(4)</a>
164: driver for Qualcomm Snapdragon GPIO controller.
165: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/arm64/qciic.4">qciic(4)</a>
166: driver for Qualcomm Snapdragon GENI I2C controller.
167: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/riscv64/sfgpio.4">sfgpio(4)</a>
168: driver for SiFive GPIO controller.
169: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/riscv64/stfclock.4">stfclock(4)</a>
170: driver for StarFive JH7100 clock controller.
171: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/riscv64/stfpinctrl.4">stfpinctrl(4)</a>
172: driver for StarFive JH7100 pin configuration.
173: <li>New stftemp
174: driver for StarFive JH7100 temperature sensor.
175: <li>New <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/sxirintc.4">sxirintc(4)</a>
176: driver for Allwinner wakeup interrupt controller.
177: <li>New gpiorestart
178: driver for system reset via GPIO pin.
1.1 deraadt 179: <li>...
180: </ul>
181:
182: <li>New or improved network hardware support:
183: <ul>
1.6 mbuhl 184: <li>Enabled checksum offloads in <a href="https://man.openbsd.org/igc.4"
185: >igc(4)</a>.
1.1 deraadt 186: <li>...
187: </ul>
188:
189: <li>Added or improved wireless network drivers:
190: <ul>
191: <li>...
192: </ul>
193:
194: <li>IEEE 802.11 wireless stack improvements and bugfixes:
195: <ul>
196: <li>...
197: </ul>
198:
199: <li>Installer and upgrade improvements:
200: <ul>
201: <li>...
202: </ul>
203:
204: <li>Security improvements:
205: <ul>
206: <li>...
207: </ul>
208:
209: <li>Routing daemons and other userland network improvements:
210: <ul>
211: <li>...
212: </ul>
213:
214: <li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/tmux">tmux(1)</a> improvements and bug fixes:
215: <ul>
216: <li>...
217: </ul>
218:
1.2 jsg 219: <li>LibreSSL version 3.6.0
1.1 deraadt 220: <ul>
221: <li>New Features
222: <ul>
223: <li>...
224: </ul>
225:
226: <li>Portable Improvements
227: <ul>
228: <li>...
229: </ul>
230:
231: <li>Compatibility Changes
232: <ul>
233: <li>...
234: </ul>
235:
236: <li>Bug fixes
237: <ul>
238: <li>...
239: </ul>
240:
241: <li>Internal Improvements
242: <ul>
243: <li>...
244: </ul>
245:
246: <li>Documentation improvements
247: <ul>
248: <li>...
249: </ul>
250: </ul>
251:
1.2 jsg 252: <li>OpenSSH 9.1
1.1 deraadt 253: <ul>
254: <li>...
255: </ul>
256:
257: <li>mandoc 1.14.6 plus several bugfixes, including:
258: <ul>
259: <li>...
260: </ul>
261:
262: <li>Ports and packages:
263: <p>Many pre-built packages for each architecture:
264: <!-- number of FTP packages minus SHA256, SHA256.sig, index.txt -->
265: <ul style="column-count: 3">
266: <li>aarch64: XXXX
267: <li>amd64: XXXX
268: <li>arm: XXXX
269: <li>i386: XXXX
270: <li>mips64: XXXX
271: <li>powerpc: XXXX
272: <li>powerpc64: XXXX
273: <li>riscv64: XXXX
274: <li>sparc64: XXXX
275: </ul>
276:
277: <p>Some highlights:
278: <ul style="column-count: 3">
1.3 sthen 279: <li>Asterisk 16.28.0, 18.14.0 and 19.6.0
1.1 deraadt 280: <li>Audacity 2.4.2
1.3 sthen 281: <li>CMake 3.24.2
282: <li>Chromium 105.0.5195.125
283: <li>Emacs 28.2
284: <li>FFmpeg 4.4.2
1.1 deraadt 285: <li>GCC 8.4.0 and 11.2.0
1.3 sthen 286: <li>GHC 9.2.4
287: <li>GNOME 42.4
288: <li>Go 1.19.1
289: <li>JDK 8u342, 11.0.16 and 17.0.4
290: <li>KDE Applications 22.08.1
291: <li>KDE Frameworks 5.98.0
292: <li>Krita 5.1.1
1.1 deraadt 293: <li>LLVM/Clang 13.0.0
1.3 sthen 294: <li>LibreOffice 7.4.1.2
1.1 deraadt 295: <li>Lua 5.1.5, 5.2.4 and 5.3.6
1.3 sthen 296: <li>MariaDB 10.9.3
297: <li>Mono 6.12.0.182
298: <li>Mozilla Firefox 105.0.1 and ESR 102.3.0
299: <li>Mozilla Thunderbird 102.3.0
300: <li>Mutt 2.2.7 and NeoMutt 20220429
301: <li>Node.js 16.17.1
1.1 deraadt 302: <li>OCaml 4.12.1
1.3 sthen 303: <li>OpenLDAP 2.6.3
304: <li>PHP 7.4.30, 8.0.23 and 8.1.10
305: <li>Postfix 3.7.2
306: <li>PostgreSQL 14.5
307: <li>Python 2.7.18, 3.9.14 and 3.10.7
308: <li>Qt 5.15.6 and 6.3.1
309: <li>R 4.2.1
310: <li>Ruby 2.7.6, 3.0.4 and 3.1.2
311: <li>Rust 1.63.0
312: <li>SQLite 3.39.3
313: <li>Shotcut 22.06.23
314: <li>Sudo 1.9.11.2
315: <li>Suricata 6.0.6
316: <li>Tcl/Tk 8.5.19 and 8.6.12
1.1 deraadt 317: <li>TeX Live 2021
1.3 sthen 318: <li>Vim 9.0.0192 and Neovim 0.7.2
1.1 deraadt 319: <li>Xfce 4.16
320: </ul>
321: <p>
322:
323: <li>As usual, steady improvements in manual pages and other documentation.
324:
325: <li>The system includes the following major components from outside suppliers:
326: <ul>
1.2 jsg 327: <li>Xenocara (based on X.Org 7.7 with xserver 21.1.4 + patches,
328: freetype 2.12.1, fontconfig 2.13.94, Mesa 22.1.7, xterm 372,
1.1 deraadt 329: xkeyboard-config 2.20, fonttosfnt 1.2.2 and more)
330: <li>LLVM/Clang 13.0.0 (+ patches)
331: <li>GCC 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches)
332: <li>Perl 5.32.1 (+ patches)
1.2 jsg 333: <li>NSD 4.6.0
334: <li>Unbound 1.16.3
1.1 deraadt 335: <li>Ncurses 5.7
336: <li>Binutils 2.17 (+ patches)
337: <li>Gdb 6.3 (+ patches)
1.2 jsg 338: <li>Awk September 12, 2022
339: <li>Expat 2.4.9
1.1 deraadt 340: </ul>
341:
342: </ul>
343: </section>
344:
345: <hr>
346:
347: <section id=install>
348: <h3>How to install</h3>
349: <p>
350: Please refer to the following files on the mirror site for
351: extensive details on how to install OpenBSD 7.2 on your machine:
352:
353: <ul>
354: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/alpha/INSTALL.alpha">
355: .../OpenBSD/7.2/alpha/INSTALL.alpha</a>
356: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/amd64/INSTALL.amd64">
357: .../OpenBSD/7.2/amd64/INSTALL.amd64</a>
358: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/arm64/INSTALL.arm64">
359: .../OpenBSD/7.2/arm64/INSTALL.arm64</a>
360: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/armv7/INSTALL.armv7">
361: .../OpenBSD/7.2/armv7/INSTALL.armv7</a>
362: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/hppa/INSTALL.hppa">
363: .../OpenBSD/7.2/hppa/INSTALL.hppa</a>
364: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/i386/INSTALL.i386">
365: .../OpenBSD/7.2/i386/INSTALL.i386</a>
366: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/landisk/INSTALL.landisk">
367: .../OpenBSD/7.2/landisk/INSTALL.landisk</a>
1.8 jsg 368: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/loongson/INSTALL.loongson">
369: .../OpenBSD/7.2/loongson/INSTALL.loongson</a>
1.1 deraadt 370: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k">
371: .../OpenBSD/7.2/luna88k/INSTALL.luna88k</a>
372: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/macppc/INSTALL.macppc">
373: .../OpenBSD/7.2/macppc/INSTALL.macppc</a>
374: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/octeon/INSTALL.octeon">
375: .../OpenBSD/7.2/octeon/INSTALL.octeon</a>
376: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/powerpc64/INSTALL.powerpc64">
377: .../OpenBSD/7.2/powerpc64/INSTALL.powerpc64</a>
378: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/riscv64/INSTALL.riscv64">
379: .../OpenBSD/7.2/riscv64/INSTALL.riscv64</a>
380: <li><a href="https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64">
381: .../OpenBSD/7.2/sparc64/INSTALL.sparc64</a>
382: </ul>
383: </section>
384:
385: <hr>
386:
387: <section id=quickinstall>
388: <p>
389: Quick installer information for people familiar with OpenBSD, and the use of
390: the "<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel.8">disklabel</a> -E" command.
391: If you are at all confused when installing OpenBSD, read the relevant
392: INSTALL.* file as listed above!
393:
394: <h3>OpenBSD/alpha:</h3>
395:
396: <p>
397: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install72.iso</i> or
398: <i>cd72.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
399: Refer to INSTALL.alpha for more details.
400:
401: <h3>OpenBSD/amd64:</h3>
402:
403: <p>
404: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install72.iso</i> or
405: <i>cd72.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
406: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
407:
408: <p>
409: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install72.img</i> or
410: <i>miniroot72.img</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
411:
412: <p>
413: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
414: you can install across the network using PXE as described in the included
415: INSTALL.amd64 document.
416:
417: <p>
418: If you are planning to dual boot OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
419: read INSTALL.amd64.
420:
421: <h3>OpenBSD/arm64:</h3>
422:
423: <p>
424: Write <i>install72.img</i> or <i>miniroot72.img</i> to a disk and boot from it
425: after connecting to the serial console. Refer to INSTALL.arm64 for more
426: details.
427:
428: <h3>OpenBSD/armv7:</h3>
429:
430: <p>
431: Write a system specific miniroot to an SD card and boot from it after connecting
432: to the serial console. Refer to INSTALL.armv7 for more details.
433:
434: <h3>OpenBSD/hppa:</h3>
435:
436: <p>
437: Boot over the network by following the instructions in INSTALL.hppa or the
438: <a href="hppa.html#install">hppa platform page</a>.
439:
440: <h3>OpenBSD/i386:</h3>
441:
442: <p>
443: If your machine can boot from CD, you can write <i>install72.iso</i> or
444: <i>cd72.iso</i> to a CD and boot from it.
445: You may need to adjust your BIOS options first.
446:
447: <p>
448: If your machine can boot from USB, you can write <i>install72.img</i> or
449: <i>miniroot72.img</i> to a USB stick and boot from it.
450:
451: <p>
452: If you can't boot from a CD, floppy disk, or USB,
453: you can install across the network using PXE as described in
454: the included INSTALL.i386 document.
455:
456: <p>
457: If you are planning on dual booting OpenBSD with another OS, you will need to
458: read INSTALL.i386.
459:
460: <h3>OpenBSD/landisk:</h3>
461:
462: <p>
463: Write <i>miniroot72.img</i> to the start of the CF
464: or disk, and boot normally.
1.8 jsg 465:
466: <h3>OpenBSD/loongson:</h3>
467:
468: <p>
469: Write <i>miniroot72.img</i> to a USB stick and boot bsd.rd from it
470: or boot bsd.rd via tftp.
471: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.loongson for more details.
1.1 deraadt 472:
473: <h3>OpenBSD/luna88k:</h3>
474:
475: <p>
476: Copy 'boot' and 'bsd.rd' to a Mach or UniOS partition, and boot the bootloader
477: from the PROM, and then bsd.rd from the bootloader.
478: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.luna88k for more details.
479:
480: <h3>OpenBSD/macppc:</h3>
481:
482: <p>
483: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, and power on your machine
484: while holding down the <i>C</i> key until the display turns on and
485: shows <i>OpenBSD/macppc boot</i>.
486:
487: <p>
488: Alternatively, at the Open Firmware prompt, enter <i>boot cd:,ofwboot
489: /7.2/macppc/bsd.rd</i>
490:
491: <h3>OpenBSD/octeon:</h3>
492:
493: <p>
494: After connecting a serial port, boot bsd.rd over the network via DHCP/tftp.
495: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.octeon for more details.
496:
497: <h3>OpenBSD/powerpc64:</h3>
498:
499: <p>
500: To install, write <i>install72.img</i> or <i>miniroot72.img</i> to a
501: USB stick, plug it into the machine and choose the <i>OpenBSD
502: install</i> menu item in Petitboot.
503: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.powerpc64 for more details.
504:
505: <h3>OpenBSD/riscv64:</h3>
506:
507: <p>
508: To install, write <i>install72.img</i> or <i>miniroot72.img</i> to a
509: USB stick, and boot with that drive plugged in.
510: Make sure you also have the microSD card plugged in that shipped with the
511: HiFive Unmatched board.
512: Refer to the instructions in INSTALL.riscv64 for more details.
513:
514: <h3>OpenBSD/sparc64:</h3>
515:
516: <p>
517: Burn the image from a mirror site to a CDROM, boot from it, and type
518: <i>boot cdrom</i>.
519:
520: <p>
521: If this doesn't work, or if you don't have a CDROM drive, you can write
522: <i>floppy72.img</i> or <i>floppyB72.img</i>
523: (depending on your machine) to a floppy and boot it with <i>boot
524: floppy</i>. Refer to INSTALL.sparc64 for details.
525:
526: <p>
527: Make sure you use a properly formatted floppy with NO BAD BLOCKS or your install
528: will most likely fail.
529:
530: <p>
531: You can also write <i>miniroot72.img</i> to the swap partition on
532: the disk and boot with <i>boot disk:b</i>.
533:
534: <p>
535: If nothing works, you can boot over the network as described in INSTALL.sparc64.
536: </section>
537:
538: <hr>
539:
540: <section id=upgrade>
541: <h3>How to upgrade</h3>
542: <p>
1.10 ! benno 543: If you already have an OpenBSD 7.1 system, and do not want to reinstall,
1.1 deraadt 544: upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the
545: <a href="faq/upgrade72.html">Upgrade Guide</a>.
546: </section>
547:
548: <hr>
549:
550: <section id=sourcecode>
551: <h3>Notes about the source code</h3>
552: <p>
553: <code>src.tar.gz</code> contains a source archive starting at <code>/usr/src</code>.
554: This file contains everything you need except for the kernel sources,
555: which are in a separate archive.
556: To extract:
557: <blockquote><pre>
558: # <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src</kbd>
559: # <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
560: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/src.tar.gz</kbd>
561: </pre></blockquote>
562: <p>
563: <code>sys.tar.gz</code> contains a source archive starting at <code>/usr/src/sys</code>.
564: This file contains all the kernel sources you need to rebuild kernels.
565: To extract:
566: <blockquote><pre>
567: # <kbd>mkdir -p /usr/src/sys</kbd>
568: # <kbd>cd /usr/src</kbd>
569: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/sys.tar.gz</kbd>
570: </pre></blockquote>
571: <p>
572: Both of these trees are a regular CVS checkout. Using these trees it
573: is possible to get a head-start on using the anoncvs servers as
574: described <a href="anoncvs.html">here</a>.
575: Using these files
576: results in a much faster initial CVS update than you could expect from
577: a fresh checkout of the full OpenBSD source tree.
578: </section>
579:
580: <hr>
581:
582: <section id=ports>
583: <h3>Ports Tree</h3>
584: <p>
585: A ports tree archive is also provided. To extract:
586: <blockquote><pre>
587: # <kbd>cd /usr</kbd>
588: # <kbd>tar xvfz /tmp/ports.tar.gz</kbd>
589: </pre></blockquote>
590: <p>
591: Go read the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">ports</a> page
592: if you know nothing about ports
593: at this point. This text is not a manual of how to use ports.
594: Rather, it is a set of notes meant to kickstart the user on the
595: OpenBSD ports system.
596: <p>
597: The <i>ports/</i> directory represents a CVS checkout of our ports.
598: As with our complete source tree, our ports tree is available via
599: <a href="anoncvs.html">AnonCVS</a>.
600: So, in order to keep up to date with the -stable branch, you must make
601: the <i>ports/</i> tree available on a read-write medium and update the tree
602: with a command like:
603: <blockquote><pre>
604: # <kbd>cd /usr/ports</kbd>
605: # <kbd>cvs -d anoncvs@server.openbsd.org:/cvs update -Pd -rOPENBSD_7_2</kbd>
606: </pre></blockquote>
607: <p>
608: [Of course, you must replace the server name here with a nearby anoncvs
609: server.]
610: <p>
611: Note that most ports are available as packages on our mirrors. Updated
612: ports for the 7.2 release will be made available if problems arise.
613: <p>
614: If you're interested in seeing a port added, would like to help out, or just
615: would like to know more, the mailing list
616: <a href="mail.html">ports@openbsd.org</a> is a good place to know.
617: </section>
618: </body>
619: </html>
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