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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">
                     10: <meta name="copyright" content="This document copyright 1996 by OpenBSD, Inc.">
                     11: </head>
                     12:
                     13: <body>
1.7       jkatz      14: <h1>OpenBSD</h1>
                     15: <hr>
1.1       deraadt    16: <h2>OpenBSD Snapshots</h2>
                     17:
1.3       fn         18: <h3><strong>How OpenBSD Snapshots are built:</strong></h3>
1.1       deraadt    19:
1.3       fn         20: <p>
1.1       deraadt    21: In each snapshot, all tar.gz files are rooted at /.  If you are a
                     22: trusting kind of person you can use the following script.  However it
1.3       fn         23: is suggested that you not blindly install snapshots in this fashion.
                     24: </p>
1.1       deraadt    25:
                     26: <pre>
                     27:        foreach i ( `pwd`/*.tar.gz )
                     28:            ( cd /; tar --unlink zxvpf $i )
                     29:        end
                     30: </pre>
                     31:
1.3       fn         32: <p>
1.8     ! deraadt    33: The tar program you use must be GNU tar, OpenBSD tar (based on pax) or
        !            34: some other newer posix-compliant version.  The tar files contain
        !            35: directory information in a new format, in particular dev.tar.gz
        !            36: contains all sorts of files that an older version of tar would break
        !            37: on.  Also, one should be able to use just about any version of pax
        !            38: instead.
1.3       fn         39: <p>
                     40:
                     41: <hr>
1.6       deraadt    42: <a href=ftp.html><img src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.3       fn         43: <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
                     44: <br>
1.8     ! deraadt    45: <small>$OpenBSD: snapshots.html,v 1.7 1996/12/16 19:28:55 jkatz Exp $</small>
1.3       fn         46:
                     47: </body>
                     48: </html>