! OpenBSD uses the CVS version control system. ! It is described in more detail here. ! The cvs(1) command is used ! to checkout a working tree and perform standard operations (log, diff, etc). ! It can either contact an CVS server (in most cases this will be an OpenBSD ! anoncvs server), or operate against a local ! copy of the repository. ! !
! If you would like to operate a local anoncvs server, use cvs(1) commands ! offline, or simply have faster access, you may use CVSync or rsync to ! fetch a local copy of the repository. ! !
! The client cvsync runs on each user's machine (typically from
! a cron(8) job), and fetches
! from a server running cvsyncd.
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! CVS is part of OpenBSD's base system. ! CVSync is an entirely different program and can be installed from ! packages: ! !
! # pkg_add cvsync !! !
! Do not build your own copy from unmodified upstream source - ! the port/package has been modified to support commitid which is now ! used in the OpenBSD repository. ! !
! In order to mirror the OpenBSD repository with CVSync, ! the following configuration file might be used: ! !
! config {
! hostname anoncvs.eu.openbsd.org
! # If your network link is a T1 or faster, comment out the following line.
! compress
! collection {
! name openbsd release rcs
! prefix /cvs
! umask 002
! }
! }
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! This directs cvsync to fetch or refresh all OpenBSD distributions from
! anoncvs.eu.openbsd.org with a
! umask(2) that permits group write
! permission to the local repository.
! The local copy of the files are stored in /cvs.
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! Assuming this file is saved as cvs-syncfile, the
! following command would be used to invoke cvsync
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! $ cvsync -c cvs-syncfile !! !
! Some repository mirrors offer access via rsync, a general-purpose ! file synchronization program. ! Again this should be installed from packages. ! Two flavours are available: ! !
! # pkg_add rsync ! Ambiguous: choose package for rsync ! a 0: <None> ! 1: rsync-3.1.2p0 ! 2: rsync-3.1.2p0-iconv ! Your choice: !! !
! Unless you have other requirements, simply install the standard version ! (option 1 on the list above). ! You can select the flavour on the command-line to avoid ! pkg_add(1) prompting for the ! version like so: !
! # pkg_add rsync-- !! !
! In order to mirror the OpenBSD repository with rsync, ! the following command line might be used: ! !
! $ rsync -avz --delete rsync://obsdacvs.cs.toronto.edu/obsdcvs/ /cvs/ !! !
! Now that you have a local copy of the CVS repository, it is now simple ! to check out, update, or do any of the other CVS operations you would ! normally do against a remote repository, locally. ! For example: !
! $ cvs -d/cvs checkout -P src ! $ cvs -d/cvs up -Pd ! $ cvs -d/cvs diff -u file.c !!
! More details on CVS operation can be found in ! FAQ5, Fetching appropriate source ! code and in the ! cvs(1) ! man page. ! !
! The following CVSync and rsync repository servers are available: ! !
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! Note: If your server is listed on here with inaccurate or
! unknown information, please contact mirrors-discuss@openbsd.org
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! You may want to use traceroute(8) ! to find out which server is nearest you. ! Problems with a server should be reported to the maintainer of the ! server in question. ! !
! As of December 2017, the CVS repository sizes are: ! !
| openbsd-ports | !- 1220MB |
| openbsd-src | !- 2865MB |
| openbsd-www | !- 704MB |
| openbsd-xenocara | !- 1658MB |
| openbsd-cvsroot | !- 158MB |
! The overall repository size currently increases at a rate ! of about 400MB per annum. The src repository increases by about ! 150MB. ! !
! IMPORTANT NOTE: ! There are a few issues relating to cryptographic software that everyone ! should be aware of: ! !
! The OpenBSD sources are from Canada. As ! ! researched by a Canadian individual and as ! ! described in the Export Control list of Canada, ! it is legal to export crypto software from Canada to the world. !
! However, if you are outside the USA or Canada, you should not ! fetch the cryptographic sections of the OpenBSD sources from a ! CVSync server located in the USA. The files in question are... !
src/kerberosIV/*
! src/kerberosV/*
! src/lib/libdes/*
! src/lib/libc/crypt/crypt.c
! src/lib/libc/crypt/morecrypt.c
! src/sys/crypto
! src/sys/netinet
! src/usr.sbin/afs/src/rxkad/*
! ! Because of the USA ITAR munitions list, ! crypto software may only be exported to Canada from the USA. !
! OpenBSD previously used CVSync to allow fetching a local copy of the ! source repository. ! This is now being decommisioned. ! Information about fetching the repository ! using rsync has been merged into the Anonymous ! CVS information page.