OpenBSD looks a lot like NetBSD (which it is derived from, following the 4.4BSD roots), but is now being developed seperately. Good changes from other free operating systems will be merged in (of course, depending on various factors like developer time for example.)
The page for each platform (listed above) provides a link to the
specific snapshot ftp area, as well as other information you might
find neccessary or handy.
These are the mailing lists:
For further assistance, send a message body of "help",
and you will receive a reply outlining all your options.
The file structure of the FTP servers is as follows:
If you add a new FTP mirror site, please contact
the FTP maintainer.
CVS is available at
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/cvs-1.6.tar.gz. Versions earlier
than 1.6 are not recommended, and may not work.
There are two levels of source tree access:
The OpenBSD cvs server is in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
There are a few issues relating to cryptographic software that everyone
should be aware of:
A sample use of the anoncvs CVS server would be:
The anoncvs service gives fledgling developers a chance to learn CVS
operation and get thoroughly involved in the development process
before getting "commit" access -- as a result of showing useful
skills and high quality results they will naturally later be given
developer access.
As well, people providing patches can create their "diff"s relative
to the CVS tree, which will ease integration.
The CVS client uses rsh to talk to the CVS server.
If some local security measure like a firewall (or imperfect protocol
emulators like slirp) prevents you from using rsh, you may be able
to use ssh instead. In this
case, one sets the environment variable CVS_RSH
to point to ssh (typically /usr/local/bin/ssh).
To reduce the performance hit the anoncvs server would take it is
recommended (and requested) that you disable encryption. If your local
site prevents you from connecting out to port 22 (which ssh defaults to
using) use port 2022.
Do not be tempted to turn on compression since CVS already compresses.
Use something like the following in your $HOME/.ssh/config
file.
A few places run OpenBSD... you can see them described in the
Gallery.
We are moving quickly to setup `infrastructure'... as things get working
this section will be updated.
How we help developers and users.
Mailing Lists:
FTP:
located at Rutgers University, eastern USA.
located in France.
located in University of Missouri-Rolla, mid-western USA.
SUP:
CVS Access:
located at Washington University, St. Louis, mid-west USA.
protocols: rsh, ssh, ssh port 2022.
located at University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO, mid-west USA.
protocols: ssh, ssh port 2022.
Because of the USA ITAR munitions list,
crypto software may only be exported to Canada from the USA.
% setenv CVSROOT anoncvs@anoncvs.openbsd.org:/cvs
% cd /tmp
% cvs get sparc
[copies the files from the repository to your machine]
% cvs log sparc/sparc/locore.s
[shows the commit log for the chosen file ]
% cvs diff -bc -r1.1 -r1.5 sparc/sparc/locore.s
[shows the changes between revisions 1.1 and rev 1.5]
The CVS man page (included with the CVS sources) has much more
information about how CVS can be used.
Host anoncvs.openbsd.org
Cipher none
Port 2022
If you wish to be a new anoncvs mirror site, please contact
the anoncvs maintainer.
Anoncvs mirrors require about 250MB of disk, and use up to 8MB of swap
per anoncvs user (assuming the user does a large operation; while smaller
operations use fewer resources, anoncvs still makes much more of an
impact than ftp or sup). Such anoncvs machines should have excellent
network connectivity for the area they are expected to serve.
www@openbsd.org