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The official sources for &os; are available via anonymous FTP from a worldwide set of mirror sites. The site is well connected and allows a large number of connections to it, but you are probably better off finding a closer mirror site (especially if you decide to set up some sort of mirror site). Additionally, &os; is available via anonymous FTP from the following mirror sites. If you choose to obtain &os; via anonymous FTP, please try to use a site near you. The mirror sites listed as Primary Mirror Sites typically have the entire &os; archive (all the currently available versions for each of the architectures) but you will probably have faster download times from a site that is in your country or region. The regional sites carry the most recent versions for the most popular architecture(s) but might not carry the entire &os; archive. All sites provide access via anonymous FTP but some sites also provide access via other methods. The access methods available for each site are provided in parentheses after the hostname. &chap.mirrors.ftp.index.inc; &chap.mirrors.lastmod.inc; &chap.mirrors.ftp.inc; CVS has been deprecated by the project, and its use is not recommended. Subversion should be used instead. CTM CTM is a method for keeping a remote directory tree in sync with a central one. It has been developed for usage with &os;'s source trees, though other people may find it useful for other purposes as time goes by. Little, if any, documentation currently exists at this time on the process of creating deltas, so contact the &a.ctm-users.name; mailing list for more information and if you wish to use CTM for other things. CTM will give you a local copy of the &os; source trees. There are a number of flavors of the tree available. Whether you wish to track the entire CVS tree or just one of the branches, CTM can provide you the information. If you are an active developer on &os;, but have lousy or non-existent TCP/IP connectivity, or simply wish to have the changes automatically sent to you, CTM was made for you. You will need to obtain up to three deltas per day for the most active branches. However, you should consider having them sent by automatic email. The sizes of the updates are always kept as small as possible. This is typically less than 5K, with an occasional (one in ten) being 10-50K and every now and then a large 100K+ or more coming around. You will also need to make yourself aware of the various caveats related to working directly from the development sources rather than a pre-packaged release. This is particularly true if you choose the current sources. It is recommended that you read Staying current with &os;. You will need two things: The CTM program, and the initial deltas to feed it (to get up to current levels). The CTM program has been part of &os; ever since version 2.0 was released, and lives in /usr/src/usr.sbin/ctm if you have a copy of the source available. The deltas you feed CTM can be had two ways, FTP or email. If you have general FTP access to the Internet then the following FTP sites support access to CTM: or see section mirrors. FTP the relevant directory and fetch the README file, starting from there. If you wish to get your deltas via email: Subscribe to one of the CTM distribution lists. &a.ctm-src-cur.name; supports the entire Subversion tree. &a.ctm-src-cur.name; supports the head of the development branch. &a.ctm-src-9.name; supports the 9.X release branch, etc.. (If you do not know how to subscribe yourself to a list, click on the list name above or go to &a.mailman.lists.link; and click on the list that you wish to subscribe to. The list page should contain all of the necessary subscription instructions.) When you begin receiving your CTM updates in the mail, you may use the ctm_rmail program to unpack and apply them. You can actually use the ctm_rmail program directly from a entry in /etc/aliases if you want to have the process run in a fully automated fashion. Check the ctm_rmail manual page for more details. No matter what method you use to get the CTM deltas, you should subscribe to the &a.ctm-announce.name; mailing list. In the future, this will be the only place where announcements concerning the operations of the CTM system will be posted. Click on the list name above and follow the instructions to subscribe to the list. Before you can start using CTM deltas, you will need to get to a starting point for the deltas produced subsequently to it. First you should determine what you already have. Everyone can start from an empty directory. You must use an initial Empty delta to start off your CTM supported tree. At some point it is intended that one of these started deltas be distributed on the CD for your convenience, however, this does not currently happen. Since the trees are many tens of megabytes, you should prefer to start from something already at hand. If you have a -RELEASE CD, you can copy or extract an initial source from it. This will save a significant transfer of data. You can recognize these starter deltas by the X appended to the number (src-cur.3210XEmpty.gz for instance). The designation following the X corresponds to the origin of your initial seed. Empty is an empty directory. As a rule a base transition from Empty is produced every 100 deltas. By the way, they are large! 70 to 80 Megabytes of gzip'd data is common for the XEmpty deltas. Once you have picked a base delta to start from, you will also need all deltas with higher numbers following it. To apply the deltas, simply say: &prompt.root; cd /where/ever/you/want/the/stuff &prompt.root; ctm -v -v /where/you/store/your/deltas/src-xxx.* CTM understands deltas which have been put through gzip, so you do not need to gunzip them first, this saves disk space. Unless it feels very secure about the entire process, CTM will not touch your tree. To verify a delta you can also use the -c flag and CTM will not actually touch your tree; it will merely verify the integrity of the delta and see if it would apply cleanly to your current tree. There are other options to CTM as well, see the manual pages or look in the sources for more information. That is really all there is to it. Every time you get a new delta, just run it through CTM to keep your sources up to date. Do not remove the deltas if they are hard to download again. You just might want to keep them around in case something bad happens. Even if you only have floppy disks, consider using fdwrite to make a copy. As a developer one would like to experiment with and change files in the source tree. CTM supports local modifications in a limited way: before checking for the presence of a file foo, it first looks for foo.ctm. If this file exists, CTM will operate on it instead of foo. This behavior gives us a simple way to maintain local changes: simply copy the files you plan to modify to the corresponding file names with a .ctm suffix. Then you can freely hack the code, while CTM keeps the .ctm file up-to-date. You can determine the list of changes that CTM will make on your source repository using the -l option to CTM. This is useful if you would like to keep logs of the changes, pre- or post- process the modified files in any manner, or just are feeling a tad paranoid. Sometimes you may want to backup all the files that would be changed by a CTM update. Specifying the -B backup-file option causes CTM to backup all files that would be touched by a given CTM delta to backup-file. Sometimes you would be interested in restricting the scope of a given CTM update, or may be interested in extracting just a few files from a sequence of deltas. You can control the list of files that CTM would operate on by specifying filtering regular expressions using the -e and -x options. For example, to extract an up-to-date copy of lib/libc/Makefile from your collection of saved CTM deltas, run the commands: &prompt.root; cd /where/ever/you/want/to/extract/it/ &prompt.root; ctm -e '^lib/libc/Makefile' ~ctm/src-xxx.* For every file specified in a CTM delta, the -e and -x options are applied in the order given on the command line. The file is processed by CTM only if it is marked as eligible after all the -e and -x options are applied to it. Tons of them: Use some kind of authentication into the CTM system, so as to allow detection of spoofed CTM updates. Clean up the options to CTM, they became confusing and counter intuitive. There is a sequence of deltas for the ports collection too, but interest has not been all that high yet. CTM/&os; is available via anonymous FTP from the following mirror sites. If you choose to obtain CTM via anonymous FTP, please try to use a site near you. In case of problems, please contact the &a.ctm-users.name; mailing list. California, Bay Area, official source South Africa, backup server for old deltas Taiwan/R.O.C. If you did not find a mirror near to you or the mirror is incomplete, try to use a search engine such as alltheweb. Subversion As of July 2012, &os; uses Subversion (svn) as the primary version control system for storing all of &os;'s source code, documentation, and the Ports Collection. Subversion is generally a developer tool. Most users should use FreeBSD Update to update the &os; base system, and Portsnap to update the &os; Ports Collection. In Subversion, URLs are used to designate a repository, taking the form of protocol://hostname/path. Mirrors may support different protocols as specified below. The first component of the path is the &os; repository to access. There are three different repositories, base for the &os; base system source code, ports for the Ports Collection, and doc for documentation. For example, the URL svn://svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org/ports/head/ specifies the main branch of the ports repository on the svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org mirror, using the svn protocol. Subversion must be installed before it can be used to check out the contents of any of the repositories. If a copy of the ports tree is already present, one can install Subversion like this: &prompt.root; cd /usr/ports/devel/subversion &prompt.root; make install clean If the ports tree is not available, Subversion can be installed as a package: &prompt.root; pkg_add -r subversion If pkgng is being used to manage packages, Subversion can be installed with it instead: &prompt.root; pkg install devel/subversion The svn command is used to fetch a clean copy of the sources into a local directory. The files in this directory are called a local working copy. If the local directory already exists but was not created by svn, rename or delete it before the checkout. Checkout over an existing non-svn directory can cause conflicts between the existing files and those brought in from the repository. A checkout from a given repository is performed with a command like this: &prompt.root; svn checkout svn-mirror/repository/branch lwcdir where: svn-mirror is a URL for one of the Subversion mirror sites. repository is one of the Project repositories, i.e., base, ports, or doc. branch depends on the repository used. ports and doc are mostly updated in the head branch, while base maintains the latest version of -CURRENT under head and the respective latest versions of the -STABLE branches under stable/8 (for 8.x) and stable/9 (9.x). lwcdir is the target directory where the contents of the specified branch should be placed. This is usually /usr/ports for ports, /usr/src for base, and /usr/doc for doc. This example checks out the Ports Collection from the western US repository using the HTTPS protocol, placing the local working copy in /usr/ports. If /usr/ports is already present but was not created by svn, remember to rename or delete it before the checkout. &prompt.root; svn checkout https://svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org/ports/head /usr/ports Because the initial checkout has to download the full branch of the remote repository, it can take a while. Please be patient. After the initial checkout, the local working copy can be updated by running: &prompt.root; svn update lwcdir To update /usr/ports created in the example above, use: &prompt.root; svn update /usr/ports The update is much quicker than a checkout, only transferring files that have changed. An alternate way of updating the local working copy after checkout is provided by the Makefile in the /usr/ports, /usr/src, and /usr/doc directories. Set SVN_UPDATE and use the update target. For example, to update /usr/src: &prompt.root; cd /usr/src &prompt.root; make update SVN_UPDATE=yes For other information about using Subversion, please see the Subversion Book, titled Version Control with Subversion, or the Subversion Documentation. Subversion Repository Mirror Sites All mirrors carry all repositories. The master &os; Subversion server, svn.FreeBSD.org, is publicly accessible, read-only. That may change in the future, so users are encouraged to use one of the official mirrors. To view the &os; Subversion repositories through a browser, use http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/. The &os; svn mirror network is still in its early days, and will likely change. Do not count on this list of mirrors being static. In particular, the SSL certificates of the servers will likely change at some point. Name Protocols Location SSL fingerprint svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org svn, http, https USA, California SHA1 1C:BD:85:95:11:9F:EB:75:A5:4B:C8:A3:FE:08:E4:02:73:06:1E:61 svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org svn, http, https, rsync USA, New Jersey SHA1 1C:BD:85:95:11:9F:EB:75:A5:4B:C8:A3:FE:08:E4:02:73:06:1E:61 svn0.eu.FreeBSD.org svn, http, https, rsync Europe, UK SHA1 39:B0:53:35:CE:60:C7:BB:00:54:96:96:71:10:94:BB:CE:1C:07:A7 HTTPS is the preferred protocol, providing protection against another computer pretending to be the &os; mirror (commonly known as a man in the middle attack) or otherwise trying to send bad content to the end user. On the first connection to an HTTPS mirror, the user will be asked to verify the server fingerprint: Error validating server certificate for 'https://svn0.us-west.freebsd.org:443': - The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the fingerprint to validate the certificate manually! - The certificate hostname does not match. Certificate information: - Hostname: svnmir.ysv.FreeBSD.org - Valid: from Jul 29 22:01:21 2013 GMT until Dec 13 22:01:21 2040 GMT - Issuer: clusteradm, FreeBSD.org, (null), CA, US (clusteradm@FreeBSD.org) - Fingerprint: 1C:BD:85:95:11:9F:EB:75:A5:4B:C8:A3:FE:08:E4:02:73:06:1E:61 (R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently? Compare the fingerprint shown to those listed in the table above. If the fingerprint matches, the server security certificate can be accepted temporarily or permanently. A temporary certificate will expire after a single session with the server, and the verification step will be repeated on the next connection. Accepting the certificate permanently will store the authentication credentials in ~/.subversion/auth/ and the user will not be asked to verify the fingerprint again until the certificate expires. If HTTPS cannot be used due to firewall or other problems, SVN is the next choice, with slightly faster transfers. When neither can be used, use HTTP. cvsup has been deprecated by the project, and its use is not recommended. Subversion should be used instead. CVSup is a software package for distributing and updating source trees from a master CVS repository on a remote server host. The &os; sources are maintained in a CVS repository on a central development machine in California. With CVSup, &os; users can easily keep their own source trees up to date. CVSup 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 CVSup client manually to get an update, or they must set up a cron job to run it automatically on a regular basis. The term CVSup, capitalized just so, refers to the entire software package. Its main components are the client cvsup which runs on each user's machine, and the server cvsupd which runs at each of the &os; mirror sites. The csup utility is a rewrite of the CVSup software in C. Its biggest advantage is, that it is faster and does not depend on the Modula-3 language, thus you do not need to install it as a requirement. Moreover you can use it out-of-the-box, since it is included in the base system. If you decided to use csup, just skip the steps on the installation of CVSup and substitute the references of CVSup with csup while following the remainder of this article. The easiest way to install CVSup is to use the precompiled net/cvsup package from the &os; packages collection. If you prefer to build CVSup from source, you can use the net/cvsup port instead. But be forewarned: the net/cvsup port depends on the Modula-3 system, which takes a substantial amount of time and disk space to download and build. If you are going to be using CVSup on a machine which will not have &xorg; installed, such as a server, be sure to use the port which does not include the CVSup GUI, net/cvsup-without-gui. CVSup's operation is controlled by a configuration file called the supfile. There are some sample supfiles in the directory /usr/share/examples/cvsup/. The information in a supfile answers the following questions for CVSup: Which files do you want to receive? Which versions of them do you want? Where do you want to get them from? Where do you want to put them on your own machine? Where do you want to put your status files? In the following sections, we will construct a typical supfile by answering each of these questions in turn. First, we describe the overall structure of a supfile. A supfile is a text file. Comments begin with # and extend to the end of the line. Lines that are blank and lines that contain only comments are ignored. Each remaining line describes a set of files that the user wishes to receive. The line begins with the name of a collection, a logical grouping of files defined by the server. The name of the collection tells the server which files you want. After the collection name come zero or more fields, separated by white space. These fields answer the questions listed above. There are two types of fields: flag fields and value fields. A flag field consists of a keyword standing alone, e.g., delete or compress. A value field also begins with a keyword, but the keyword is followed without intervening white space by = and a second word. For example, release=cvs is a value field. A supfile typically specifies more than one collection to receive. One way to structure a supfile is to specify all of the relevant fields explicitly for each collection. However, that tends to make the supfile lines quite long, and it is inconvenient because most fields are the same for all of the collections in a supfile. CVSup provides a defaulting mechanism to avoid these problems. Lines beginning with the special pseudo-collection name *default can be used to set flags and values which will be used as defaults for the subsequent collections in the supfile. A default value can be overridden for an individual collection, by specifying a different value with the collection itself. Defaults can also be changed or augmented in mid-supfile by additional *default lines. With this background, we will now proceed to construct a supfile for receiving and updating the main source tree of &os;-CURRENT. Which files do you want to receive? The files available via CVSup are organized into named groups called collections. The collections that are available are described in the following section. In this example, we wish to receive the entire main source tree for the &os; system. There is a single large collection src-all which will give us all of that. As a first step toward constructing our supfile, we simply list the collections, one per line (in this case, only one line): src-all Which version(s) of them do you want? With CVSup, you can receive virtually any version of the sources that ever existed. That is possible because the cvsupd server works directly from the CVS repository, which contains all of the versions. You specify which one of them you want using the tag= and date= value fields. Be very careful to specify any tag= fields correctly. Some tags are valid only for certain collections of files. If you specify an incorrect or misspelled tag, CVSup will delete files which you probably do not want deleted. In particular, use only tag=. for the ports-* collections. The tag= field names a symbolic tag in the repository. There are two kinds of tags, revision tags and branch tags. A revision tag refers to a specific revision. Its meaning stays the same from day to day. A branch tag, on the other hand, refers to the latest revision on a given line of development, at any given time. Because a branch tag does not refer to a specific revision, it may mean something different tomorrow than it means today. contains branch tags that users might be interested in. When specifying a tag in CVSup's configuration file, it must be preceded with tag= (RELENG_8 will become tag=RELENG_8). Keep in mind that only the tag=. is relevant for the Ports Collection. Be very careful to type the tag name exactly as shown. CVSup cannot distinguish between valid and invalid tags. If you misspell the tag, CVSup will behave as though you had specified a valid tag which happens to refer to no files at all. It will delete your existing sources in that case. When you specify a branch tag, you normally receive the latest versions of the files on that line of development. If you wish to receive some past version, you can do so by specifying a date with the date= value field. The &man.cvsup.1; manual page explains how to do that. For our example, we wish to receive &os;-CURRENT. We add this line at the beginning of our supfile: *default tag=. There is an important special case that comes into play if you specify neither a tag= field nor a date= field. In that case, you receive the actual RCS files directly from the server's CVS repository, rather than receiving a particular version. Developers generally prefer this mode of operation. By maintaining a copy of the repository itself on their systems, they gain the ability to browse the revision histories and examine past versions of files. This gain is achieved at a large cost in terms of disk space, however. Where do you want to get them from? We use the host= field to tell cvsup where to obtain its updates. Any of the CVSup mirror sites will do, though you should try to select one that is close to you in cyberspace. In this example we will use a fictional &os; distribution site, cvsup99.FreeBSD.org: *default host=cvsup99.FreeBSD.org You will need to change the host to one that actually exists before running CVSup. On any particular run of cvsup, you can override the host setting on the command line, with -h hostname. Where do you want to put them on your own machine? The prefix= field tells cvsup where to put the files it receives. In this example, we will put the source files directly into our main source tree, /usr/src. The src directory is already implicit in the collections we have chosen to receive, so this is the correct specification: *default prefix=/usr Where should cvsup maintain its status files? The CVSup client maintains certain status files in what is called the base directory. These files help CVSup to work more efficiently, by keeping track of which updates you have already received. We will use the standard base directory, /var/db: *default base=/var/db If your base directory does not already exist, now would be a good time to create it. The cvsup client will refuse to run if the base directory does not exist. Miscellaneous supfile settings: There is one more line of boiler plate that normally needs to be present in the supfile: *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress release=cvs indicates that the server should get its information out of the main &os; CVS repository. This is virtually always the case, but there are other possibilities which are beyond the scope of this discussion. delete gives CVSup permission to delete files. You should always specify this, so that CVSup can keep your source tree fully up-to-date. CVSup is careful to delete only those files for which it is responsible. Any extra files you happen to have will be left strictly alone. use-rel-suffix is ... arcane. If you really want to know about it, see the &man.cvsup.1; manual page. Otherwise, just specify it and do not worry about it. compress enables the use of gzip-style compression on the communication channel. If your network link is T1 speed or faster, you probably should not use compression. Otherwise, it helps substantially. Putting it all together: Here is the entire supfile for our example: *default tag=. *default host=cvsup99.FreeBSD.org *default prefix=/usr *default base=/var/db *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress src-all As mentioned above, CVSup uses a pull method. Basically, this means that you connect to the CVSup server, and it says, Here is what you can download from me..., and your client responds OK, I will take this, this, this, and this. In the default configuration, the CVSup client will take every file associated with the collection and tag you chose in the configuration file. In order to download a partial tree, use the refuse file. The refuse file tells CVSup that it should not take every single file from a collection; in other words, it tells the client to refuse certain files from the server. The refuse file can be found (or, if you do not yet have one, should be placed) in base/sup/. base is defined in your supfile; our defined base is /var/db, which means that by default the refuse file is /var/db/sup/refuse. The refuse file has a very simple format; it simply contains the names of files or directories that you do not wish to download. For example: bin/ usr.bin/ Users who are on slow links or pay by the minute for their Internet connection will be able to save time as they will no longer need to download files that they will never use. For more information on refuse files and other neat features of CVSup, please view its manual page. You are now ready to try an update. The command line for doing this is quite simple: &prompt.root; cvsup supfile where supfile is of course the name of the supfile you have just created. Assuming you are running under X11, cvsup will display a GUI window with some buttons to do the usual things. Press the go button, and watch it run. Since you are updating your actual /usr/src tree in this example, you will need to run the program as root so that cvsup has the permissions it needs to update your files. Having just created your configuration file, and having never used this program before, that might understandably make you nervous. There is an easy way to do a trial run without touching your precious files. Just create an empty directory somewhere convenient, and name it as an extra argument on the command line: &prompt.root; mkdir /var/tmp/dest &prompt.root; cvsup supfile /var/tmp/dest The directory you specify will be used as the destination directory for all file updates. CVSup will examine your usual files in /usr/src, but it will not modify or delete any of them. Any file updates will instead land in /var/tmp/dest/usr/src. CVSup will also leave its base directory status files untouched when run this way. The new versions of those files will be written into the specified directory. As long as you have read access to /usr/src, you do not even need to be root to perform this kind of trial run. If you are not running X11 or if you just do not like GUIs, you should add a couple of options to the command line when you run cvsup: &prompt.root; cvsup -g -L 2 supfile The -g tells CVSup not to use its GUI. This is automatic if you are not running X11, but otherwise you have to specify it. The -L 2 tells CVSup to print out the details of all the file updates it is doing. There are three levels of verbosity, from -L 0 to -L 2. The default is 0, which means total silence except for error messages. There are plenty of other options available. For a brief list of them, type cvsup -H. For more detailed descriptions, see the manual page. Once you are satisfied with the way updates are working, you can arrange for regular runs of CVSup using &man.cron.8;. Obviously, you should not let CVSup use its GUI when running it from &man.cron.8;. The file collections available via CVSup are organized hierarchically. There are a few large collections, and they are divided into smaller sub-collections. Receiving a large collection is equivalent to receiving each of its sub-collections. The hierarchical relationships among collections are reflected by the use of indentation in the list below. The most commonly used collection is src-all. cvs-all release=cvs The main &os; CVS repository, including the cryptography code. distrib release=cvs Files related to the distribution and mirroring of &os;. projects-all release=cvs Sources for the &os; projects repository. src-all release=cvs The main &os; sources, including the cryptography code. src-base release=cvs Miscellaneous files at the top of /usr/src. src-bin release=cvs User utilities that may be needed in single-user mode (/usr/src/bin). src-cddl release=cvs Utilities and libraries covered by the CDDL license (/usr/src/cddl). src-contrib release=cvs Utilities and libraries from outside the &os; project, used relatively unmodified (/usr/src/contrib). src-crypto release=cvs Cryptography utilities and libraries from outside the &os; project, used relatively unmodified (/usr/src/crypto). src-eBones release=cvs Kerberos and DES (/usr/src/eBones). Not used in current releases of &os;. src-etc release=cvs System configuration files (/usr/src/etc). src-games release=cvs Games (/usr/src/games). src-gnu release=cvs Utilities covered by the GNU Public License (/usr/src/gnu). src-include release=cvs Header files (/usr/src/include). src-kerberos5 release=cvs Kerberos5 security package (/usr/src/kerberos5). src-kerberosIV release=cvs KerberosIV security package (/usr/src/kerberosIV). src-lib release=cvs Libraries (/usr/src/lib). src-libexec release=cvs System programs normally executed by other programs (/usr/src/libexec). src-release release=cvs Files required to produce a &os; release (/usr/src/release). src-rescue release=cvs Statically linked programs for emergency recovery; see &man.rescue.8; (/usr/src/rescue). src-sbin release=cvs System utilities for single-user mode (/usr/src/sbin). src-secure release=cvs Cryptographic libraries and commands (/usr/src/secure). src-share release=cvs Files that can be shared across multiple systems (/usr/src/share). src-sys release=cvs The kernel (/usr/src/sys). src-sys-crypto release=cvs Kernel cryptography code (/usr/src/sys/crypto). src-tools release=cvs Various tools for the maintenance of &os; (/usr/src/tools). src-usrbin release=cvs User utilities (/usr/src/usr.bin). src-usrsbin release=cvs System utilities (/usr/src/usr.sbin). distrib release=self The CVSup server's own configuration files. Used by CVSup mirror sites. gnats release=current The GNATS bug-tracking database. mail-archive release=current &os; mailing list archive. For the CVSup FAQ and other information about CVSup, see The CVSup Home Page. Most &os;-related discussion of CVSup takes place on the &a.hackers;. New versions of the software are announced there, as well as on the &a.announce;. For questions or bug reports about CVSup take a look at the CVSup FAQ. CVSup servers for &os; are running at the following sites: &chap.mirrors.cvsup.index.inc; &chap.mirrors.lastmod.inc; &chap.mirrors.cvsup.inc; CVS has been deprecated by the project, and its use is not recommended. Subversion should be used instead. When obtaining or updating sources using cvs or CVSup, a revision tag must be specified. A revision tag refers to either a particular line of &os; development, or a specific point in time. The first type are called branch tags, and the second type are called release tags. All of these, with the exception of HEAD (which is always a valid tag), only apply to the src/ tree. The ports/, doc/, and www/ trees are not branched. HEAD Symbolic name for the main line, or &os;-CURRENT. Also the default when no revision is specified. In CVSup, this tag is represented by a . (not punctuation, but a literal . character). In CVS, this is the default when no revision tag is specified. It is usually not a good idea to checkout or update to CURRENT sources on a STABLE machine, unless that is your intent. RELENG_9 The line of development for &os;-9.X, also known as &os; 9-STABLE RELENG_9_1 The release branch for &os;-9.1, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_9_0 The release branch for &os;-9.0, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_8 The line of development for &os;-8.X, also known as &os; 8-STABLE RELENG_8_3 The release branch for &os;-8.3, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_8_2 The release branch for &os;-8.2, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_8_1 The release branch for &os;-8.1, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_8_0 The release branch for &os;-8.0, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_7 The line of development for &os;-7.X, also known as &os; 7-STABLE RELENG_7_4 The release branch for &os;-7.4, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_7_3 The release branch for &os;-7.3, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_7_2 The release branch for &os;-7.2, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_7_1 The release branch for &os;-7.1, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_7_0 The release branch for &os;-7.0, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_6 The line of development for &os;-6.X, also known as &os; 6-STABLE RELENG_6_4 The release branch for &os;-6.4, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_6_3 The release branch for &os;-6.3, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_6_2 The release branch for &os;-6.2, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_6_1 The release branch for &os;-6.1, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_6_0 The release branch for &os;-6.0, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_5 The line of development for &os;-5.X, also known as &os; 5-STABLE. RELENG_5_5 The release branch for &os;-5.5, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_5_4 The release branch for &os;-5.4, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_5_3 The release branch for &os;-5.3, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_5_2 The release branch for &os;-5.2 and &os;-5.2.1, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_5_1 The release branch for &os;-5.1, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_5_0 The release branch for &os;-5.0, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_4 The line of development for &os;-4.X, also known as &os; 4-STABLE. RELENG_4_11 The release branch for &os;-4.11, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_4_10 The release branch for &os;-4.10, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_4_9 The release branch for &os;-4.9, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_4_8 The release branch for &os;-4.8, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_4_7 The release branch for &os;-4.7, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_4_6 The release branch for &os;-4.6 and &os;-4.6.2, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_4_5 The release branch for &os;-4.5, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_4_4 The release branch for &os;-4.4, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_4_3 The release branch for &os;-4.3, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. RELENG_3 The line of development for &os;-3.X, also known as 3.X-STABLE. RELENG_2_2 The line of development for &os;-2.2.X, also known as 2.2-STABLE. This branch is mostly obsolete. These tags refer to a specific point in time when a particular version of &os; was released. The release engineering process is documented in more detail by the Release Engineering Information and Release Process documents. The src tree uses tag names that start with RELENG_ tags. The ports and doc trees use tags whose names begin with RELEASE tags. Finally, the www tree is not tagged with any special name for releases. RELENG_9_1_0_RELEASE &os; 9.1 RELENG_9_0_0_RELEASE &os; 9.0 RELENG_8_3_0_RELEASE &os; 8.3 RELENG_8_2_0_RELEASE &os; 8.2 RELENG_8_1_0_RELEASE &os; 8.1 RELENG_8_0_0_RELEASE &os; 8.0 RELENG_7_4_0_RELEASE &os; 7.4 RELENG_7_3_0_RELEASE &os; 7.3 RELENG_7_2_0_RELEASE &os; 7.2 RELENG_7_1_0_RELEASE &os; 7.1 RELENG_7_0_0_RELEASE &os; 7.0 RELENG_6_4_0_RELEASE &os; 6.4 RELENG_6_3_0_RELEASE &os; 6.3 RELENG_6_2_0_RELEASE &os; 6.2 RELENG_6_1_0_RELEASE &os; 6.1 RELENG_6_0_0_RELEASE &os; 6.0 RELENG_5_5_0_RELEASE &os; 5.5 RELENG_5_4_0_RELEASE &os; 5.4 RELENG_4_11_0_RELEASE &os; 4.11 RELENG_5_3_0_RELEASE &os; 5.3 RELENG_4_10_0_RELEASE &os; 4.10 RELENG_5_2_1_RELEASE &os; 5.2.1 RELENG_5_2_0_RELEASE &os; 5.2 RELENG_4_9_0_RELEASE &os; 4.9 RELENG_5_1_0_RELEASE &os; 5.1 RELENG_4_8_0_RELEASE &os; 4.8 RELENG_5_0_0_RELEASE &os; 5.0 RELENG_4_7_0_RELEASE &os; 4.7 RELENG_4_6_2_RELEASE &os; 4.6.2 RELENG_4_6_1_RELEASE &os; 4.6.1 RELENG_4_6_0_RELEASE &os; 4.6 RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE &os; 4.5 RELENG_4_4_0_RELEASE &os; 4.4 RELENG_4_3_0_RELEASE &os; 4.3 RELENG_4_2_0_RELEASE &os; 4.2 RELENG_4_1_1_RELEASE &os; 4.1.1 RELENG_4_1_0_RELEASE &os; 4.1 RELENG_4_0_0_RELEASE &os; 4.0 RELENG_3_5_0_RELEASE &os;-3.5 RELENG_3_4_0_RELEASE &os;-3.4 RELENG_3_3_0_RELEASE &os;-3.3 RELENG_3_2_0_RELEASE &os;-3.2 RELENG_3_1_0_RELEASE &os;-3.1 RELENG_3_0_0_RELEASE &os;-3.0 RELENG_2_2_8_RELEASE &os;-2.2.8 RELENG_2_2_7_RELEASE &os;-2.2.7 RELENG_2_2_6_RELEASE &os;-2.2.6 RELENG_2_2_5_RELEASE &os;-2.2.5 RELENG_2_2_2_RELEASE &os;-2.2.2 RELENG_2_2_1_RELEASE &os;-2.2.1 RELENG_2_2_0_RELEASE &os;-2.2.0 The following sites make &os; available through the rsync protocol. The rsync utility works in much the same way as the &man.rcp.1; command, but has more options and uses the rsync remote-update protocol which transfers only the differences between two sets of files, thus greatly speeding up the synchronization over the network. This is most useful if you are a mirror site for the &os; FTP server, or the CVS repository. The rsync suite is available for many operating systems, on &os;, see the net/rsync port or use the package. Czech Republic rsync://ftp.cz.FreeBSD.org/ Available collections: ftp: A partial mirror of the &os; FTP server. &os;: A full mirror of the &os; FTP server. Netherlands rsync://ftp.nl.FreeBSD.org/ Available collections: &os;: A full mirror of the &os; FTP server. Russia rsync://ftp.mtu.ru/ Available collections: &os;: A full mirror of the &os; FTP server. &os;-gnats: The GNATS bug-tracking database. &os;-Archive: The mirror of &os; Archive FTP server. Sweden rsync://ftp4.se.freebsd.org/ Available collections: &os;: A full mirror of the &os; FTP server. Taiwan rsync://ftp.tw.FreeBSD.org/ rsync://ftp2.tw.FreeBSD.org/ rsync://ftp6.tw.FreeBSD.org/ Available collections: &os;: A full mirror of the &os; FTP server. United Kingdom rsync://rsync.mirrorservice.org/ Available collections: ftp.freebsd.org: A full mirror of the &os; FTP server. United States of America rsync://ftp-master.FreeBSD.org/ This server may only be used by &os; primary mirror sites. Available collections: &os;: The master archive of the &os; FTP server. acl: The &os; master ACL list. rsync://ftp13.FreeBSD.org/ Available collections: &os;: A full mirror of the &os; FTP server.