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<h1>OpenBSD</h1>
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<h2>OpenBSD Snapshots</h2>

<h3><strong>How OpenBSD Snapshots are built:</strong></h3>

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In each snapshot, all tar.gz files are rooted at /.  If you are a
trusting kind of person you can use the following script.  However it
is suggested that you not blindly install snapshots in this fashion.
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	foreach i ( `pwd`/*.tar.gz )
	    ( cd /; tar --unlink zxvpf $i )
	end
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<p>
The tar program you use must be GNU tar, OpenBSD tar (based on pax) or
some other newer posix-compliant version.  The tar files contain
directory information in a new format, in particular dev.tar.gz
contains all sorts of files that an older version of tar would break
on.  Also, one should be able to use just about any version of pax
instead.
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