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CVS is the source code control system used to manage the OpenBSD source

tree. It is described in more detail <a href="anoncvs.html#CVS">here</a>.

Note that CVS and CVSup are entirely different programs. Although

CVS can be used for remote file access, it is not optimized for

wholesale source tree distribution over the net, and CVSup can be

easily an order of magnitude more efficient for this task.

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The latest version of CVSup is available at

Building CVSup from the sources is not for the fainthearted since

it is written in Modula-3. Currently an OpenBSD port of Modula-3

(<tt>lang/pm3</tt>) is only available for the i386 platform, and

it is a fairly large package. If you only care about running CVSup,

it is recommended that you download the statically linked cvsup

package from the <a href="ftp.html">ftp mirror sites</a> instead of

building your own from the <tt>net/cvsup</tt> port.

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CVSup is difficult to compile and install because it is written in Modula3.

For further information about CVSup, see the author's

While there are open source Modula3 environments available, compiling and

installing them is a difficult task (especially for unsupported platforms).

homepage</a>.

There is a port of Modula3 for i386 architecture only (<tt>lang/pm3</tt>).

Therefore, CVSup is only currently available for i386.

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The following configuration file might be used:

In order to mirror the OpenBSD repository with CVSup,

the following configuration file might be used:

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