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<h2><font color="#e00000">CVSync</font></h2>
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<h3>Table of Contents</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="#CVSync">What Is CVSync?</a></li>
<li><a href="#CVS">What Is CVS?</a></li>
<li><a href="#starting">Getting Started Using CVSync</a></li>
<li><a href="#using">Using CVS to Work With Your Repository</a></li>
<li><a href="#CVSROOT">Available CVSync Servers</a></li>
</ul>
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<h3><a name="CVSync"><font color="#0000e0">What Is CVSync?</font></a></h3>
<p>
<b>CVSync</b> is a software package for distributing and updating source
trees from a master <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&sektion=1">cvs(1)</a> repository on a remote server host. The OpenBSD
sources are maintained in a CVS repository on a central development machine
in Canada. With CVSync, OpenBSD users can easily keep their own source trees
up to date.
</p>
<p>
<b>CVSync</b> uses the so-called pull model of updating. Under the pull
model, each client asks the server for updates, if and when they are
wanted. The server waits passively for update requests from its clients.
Thus all updates are instigated by the client. The server never sends
unsolicited updates. Users must either run the <b>CVSync</b> client
manually to get an update, or they must set up a <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cron&sektion=8">cron(8)</a> job to run it
automatically on a regular basis.
</p>
<p>
The term <b>CVSync</b>, capitalized just so, refers to the entire software
package. Its main components are the client <tt>cvsync</tt> which runs on
each user's machine, and the server <tt>cvsyncd</tt> which runs at each of
the OpenBSD CVSync mirror sites.
</p>
<p>
<b>CVSync</b> is intended to be both faster and more flexible than
sup and CVSup.
</p>
<p>
The OpenBSD Project currently has six main source repositories:
</p>
<ul>
<li><b>src</b> - Houses all source code for the OpenBSD Operating System.</li>
<li><b>ports</b> - Houses the <a href="faq/ports/index.html">OpenBSD Ports</a>.</li>
<li><b>www</b> - Houses all OpenBSD web pages (including this one).</li>
<li><b>X11</b> - Houses OpenBSD's adaptation of the
<a href="http://www.XFree86.org/">XFree86-3</a> software project.
<li><b>XF4</b> - Houses OpenBSD's adaptation of the XFree86-4 source tree.
<li><b>xenocara</b> - Houses OpenBSD's active X.org v7 source tree.
</ul>
The <b>X11</b> and <b>XF4</b> repositories are here just for historical
purposes, most users will have no reason to use those trees, they are no longer
being used.
<h3><a name="CVS"><font color="#0000e0">What Is CVS?</font></a></h3>
<p>
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 CVSync 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 CVSync can be
easily an order of magnitude more efficient for this task.
</p>
<h3>
<a name="starting"><font color="#0000e0">Getting Started Using CVSync</font></a>
</h3>
<p>
If you only care about running CVSync, it is recommended that you
download the cvsync package from the <a href="ftp.html">ftp mirror
sites</a> instead of building your own from the <tt>net/cvsync</tt>
port.
</p>
<p>
For further information about CVSync, see the
<a href="http://www.cvsync.org/">project homepage</a>.
</p>
<p>
In order to mirror the OpenBSD repository with CVSync,
the following configuration file might be used:
</p>
<pre>
config {
hostname cvsync.de.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
}
}
</pre>
<p>
This directs cvsync to refresh all OpenBSD distributions from
<b>cvsync.de.openbsd.org</b> with a <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=umask&sektion=2">umask(2)</a> that permits group write
permission to the local repository.
</p>
<p>
Assuming this file is saved as <tt>cvs-syncfile</tt>, the
following command would be used to invoke cvsync
</p>
<pre>
<b>cvsync -c cvs-syncfile</b>
</pre>
<h3><a name="using">
<font color="#0000e0">Using CVS to Work With Your Repository</font>
</a></h3>
<p>
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:
<pre>
<b>cvs -d/cvs checkout -P src</b>
<b>cvs -d/cvs up -Pd</b>
<b>cvs -d/cvs diff -u file.c</b>
</pre>
More details on CVS operation can be found in
<a href="faq/faq5.html#BldGetSrc">FAQ5, Fetching appropriate source
code</a> and in the
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cvs&sektion=1">cvs(1)</a>
man page.
<h3>
<a name="CVSROOT"><font color="#0000e0">Available CVSync Servers</font></a>
</h3>
<p>The following CVSync servers are available:</p>
<p>
<ul>
<li><strong>ftp5.eu.openbsd.org</strong><br>
Host also known as <strong>anga.funkfeuer.at</strong>.<br>
Location: Vienna, Austria.<br>
Maintained by <a href="mailto:martin@openbsd.org">Martin Reindl</a>.<br>
Updated every 2 hours from anoncvs1.usa.openbsd.org.<br>
<p>
<li><strong>anoncvs.comstyle.com</strong><br>
Location: Toronto, Canada.<br>
Maintained by <a href="mailto:brad@comstyle.com">Brad Smith</a>.<br>
Updated hourly.<br>
<p>
<li><strong>anoncvs.fr.openbsd.org</strong><br>
Location: Paris, France.<br>
Maintained by <a href="mailto:landry@openbsd.org">Landry Breuil</a>.<br>
Updated every 2 hours from anoncvs1.ca.openbsd.org.<br>
<p>
<li><a href="http://mirror.osn.de/"><strong>mirror.osn.de</strong></a><br>
Location: Nürnberg, Germany.<br>
Maintained by <a href="mailto:aw@osn.de">Armin Wolfermann</a>.<br>
Updated every 3 hours.<br>
<p>
<li><a href="http://www.allbsd.org/"><strong>cvsync.allbsd.org</strong></a><br>
Location: Tokyo, Japan.<br>
Maintained by <a href="mailto:hrs@allbsd.org">Hiroki Sato</a>.<br>
<p>
<li><strong>anoncvs.eu.openbsd.org</strong><br>
Location: Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.<br>
Maintained by <a href="mailto:jj@openbsd.org, ftp@it.su.se">Janne Johansson</a>.<br>
Updated every 2 hours.<br>
<p>
<li><strong>anoncvs.spacehopper.org</strong><br>
Location: London, United Kingdom.<br>
Maintained by <a href="mailto:sthen@openbsd.org">Stuart Henderson</a>.<br>
Updated hourly from anoncvs.ca.openbsd.org.<br>
<p>
<li><strong>anoncvs1.usa.openbsd.org</strong><br>
Host also known as <strong>anoncvs.usa.openbsd.org, anoncvs4.usa.openbsd.org</strong>.<br>
Location: Internet Systems Consortium, Redwood City, CA, USA.<br>
Maintained by <a href="mailto:millert@openbsd.org">Todd C. Miller</a>.<br>
Updated every 2 hours.<br>
<p>
<li><strong>anoncvs3.usa.openbsd.org</strong><br>
Location: National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA.<br>
Maintained by <a href="mailto:millert@openbsd.org">Todd C. Miller</a>.<br>
Updated every 2 hours.<br>
<p>
</ul>
<p>
<em>Note:</em> If your server is listed on here with inaccurate or
unknown information, please contact <a
href="mailto:beck@openbsd.org"><tt>beck@openbsd.org</tt></a>
</p>
<p>
You may want to use <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=traceroute&sektion=8">traceroute(8)</a>
to find out which server is nearest you.
Problems with a server should be reported to the <b>maintainer</b> of the
server in question.
</p>
<p>
As of July 2012, the CVS repository sizes are
</p>
<table>
<tr><td width="20"></td>
<td><strong>openbsd-ports</strong></td>
<td>- <b>601</b>MB</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td><strong>openbsd-src</strong></td>
<td>- <b>1933</b>MB</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td><strong>openbsd-www</strong></td>
<td>- <b>434</b>MB</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td><strong>openbsd-xenocara</strong></td>
<td>- <b>1024</b>MB</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td><strong>openbsd-x11</strong></td>
<td>- <b>200</b>MB</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td><strong>openbsd-xf4</strong></td>
<td>- <b>564</b>MB</td></tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td><strong>openbsd-cvsroot</strong></td>
<td>- <b>940</b>MB</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
The overall repository size currently increases at a rate
of about <b>400</b>MB per annum. The src repository increases by about
<b>150</b>MB.
</p>
<p>
<strong>IMPORTANT NOTE:</strong>
There are a few issues relating to cryptographic software that everyone
should be aware of:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>
The OpenBSD sources are from Canada. As
<a href="http://www.efc.ca/pages/doc/crypto-export.html">
researched by a Canadian individual</a> and as
<a href="http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ECL.html">
described in the Export Control list of Canada</a>,
it is legal to export crypto software from Canada to the world.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
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...
</p>
<ul>
<li><tt>src/kerberosIV/*</tt></li>
<li><tt>src/kerberosV/*</tt></li>
<li><tt>src/lib/libdes/*</tt></li>
<li><tt>src/lib/libc/crypt/crypt.c</tt></li>
<li><tt>src/lib/libc/crypt/morecrypt.c</tt></li>
<li><tt>src/sys/crypto</tt></li>
<li><tt>src/sys/netinet</tt></li>
<li><tt>src/usr.sbin/afs/src/rxkad/*</tt></li>
<li><tt>XF4/xc-mit/lib/Xdmcp/Wraphelp.c</tt></li>
<li><tt>XF4/xc-old/lib/Xdmcp/Wraphelp.c</tt></li>
<li><tt>XF4/xc/lib/Xdmcp/Wraphelp.c</tt></li>
</ul>
<p>
Because of the USA ITAR munitions list,
crypto software may only be exported to Canada from the USA.
</p>
</li>
</ul>
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