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1.3       fn          1: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC  "-//IETF//DTD HTML Strict//EN">
                      2: <html>
1.1       deraadt     3: <head>
                      4: <title>OpenBSD Snapshots</title>
1.3       fn          5: <link rev=made href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>
                      6: <meta name="resource-type" content="document">
                      7: <meta name="description" content="the OpenBSD snapshots info page">
                      8: <meta name="keywords" content="openbsd,snapshots">
                      9: <meta name="distribution" content="global">
1.9       deraadt    10: <meta name="copyright" content="This document copyright 1996 by OpenBSD.">
1.3       fn         11: </head>
                     12:
1.10      downsj     13: <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#23238E">
                     14:
1.11    ! pauls      15: <img alt="[OpenBSD]" height=30 width=141 SRC="images/smalltitle.gif">
1.10      downsj     16:
1.7       jkatz      17: <hr>
1.1       deraadt    18: <h2>OpenBSD Snapshots</h2>
                     19:
1.3       fn         20: <h3><strong>How OpenBSD Snapshots are built:</strong></h3>
1.1       deraadt    21:
1.3       fn         22: <p>
1.1       deraadt    23: In each snapshot, all tar.gz files are rooted at /.  If you are a
                     24: trusting kind of person you can use the following script.  However it
1.3       fn         25: is suggested that you not blindly install snapshots in this fashion.
                     26: </p>
1.1       deraadt    27:
                     28: <pre>
                     29:        foreach i ( `pwd`/*.tar.gz )
                     30:            ( cd /; tar --unlink zxvpf $i )
                     31:        end
                     32: </pre>
                     33:
1.3       fn         34: <p>
1.8       deraadt    35: The tar program you use must be GNU tar, OpenBSD tar (based on pax) or
                     36: some other newer posix-compliant version.  The tar files contain
                     37: directory information in a new format, in particular dev.tar.gz
                     38: contains all sorts of files that an older version of tar would break
                     39: on.  Also, one should be able to use just about any version of pax
                     40: instead.
1.3       fn         41: <p>
                     42:
                     43: <hr>
1.11    ! pauls      44: <a href=ftp.html><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.3       fn         45: <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
                     46: <br>
1.11    ! pauls      47: <small>$OpenBSD: snapshots.html,v 1.10 1997/06/13 02:22:28 downsj Exp $</small>
1.3       fn         48:
                     49: </body>
                     50: </html>