On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:34:01AM -0700, Bob Miller wrote:
> I am building an OpenBSD firewall.  (I bet that surprised you, Jacob. (-: )
>
I think you will be the one pleasantly surprised :)

> I'd like to get a copy of the sources.  I understand that the right
> way to do that is to use CVSup to mirror the CVS repository.
>
There are a few ways to get the repository.  My favorite is ctm.
http://www.openbsd.org/ctm.html
I don't think you really want the whole repo on a firewall tho.

> Since I'm on a _s_l_o_w_w_w_ link, I don't want to suck the whole
> repository across the net.  I understand that the CVS repository is on
> the OpenBSD CD-ROMs, and I could copy it from there and CVSup from
> there.
> 
The repository is not on the CDs.  There are tarballs of cvs *checkouts* 
of the base sources, the XFree86 sources, and the ports Makefiles/patches.
The files are src.tar.gz, XF4.tar.gz, and ports.tar.gz, respectively, and
are also on the ftp site and it's mirrors.  I think this is what you're
looking for.

http://www.openbsd.org/cvs.html is a good reference.

I would also suggest using cvs instead of cvsup.  A little slower, but
from what I hear, more reliable.

One other thing, since this is a firewall, you probably won't need to
use cvs, you can just get the individual patches, which would be the
least network traffic. -> http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html

> Would somebody be willing to lend me an OpenBSD 2.9 CD-ROM at this
> Thursday's meeting?
>
I would, but I won't be there.  Hopefully I'll make it next week tho.
 
> Is it legal to copy the CD image?
>
No, but it's perfectly legal to make your own.

I'll bring 3.0-Beta CDs next week. 

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