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Old 19th May 2012
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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
I missed this question, and wanted to take a moment to answer it.Not to my knowledge. However you need not use them if you do not wish to; their use merely reduces load on a CVS server (and bandwidth for you) on initial checkout of a -stable or -current working directory.

These tarballs are -release sources, converted from a CVS working directory into a standard file hierarchy via the cvs(1) export command. To use them, you would have unpacked these tarballs, and then converted the directory structure back into a CVS working directory with a cvs(1) checkout command. The process is described under FAQ 5.3.3 in "Pre-loading the tree" and in the AnonCVS FAQ under "Getting Started with Anonymous CVS".
The stable document mentions using the source and manually patching it when it says:

Stick with our latest release and apply the patches by hand.

http://www.openbsd.org/stable.html

That is what I have done in the past without having to use CVS.

In that case it would be nice to have a checksum for both the source tarballs and for the patches.
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