INSTALLURL(5)

💖 INSTALLURL(5) — the File Formats Manual glow-up ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to INSTALLURL(5), a page in the File Formats Manual section, and honestly? It's short, it's sweet, and it's lowkey the most important little file on your OpenBSD box. Let's get into it 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

installurl — the place where you tell your system which OpenBSD mirror server to pull from. That's it. That's the whole vibe. 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So the file /etc/installurl is literally just one single line, and that line is an OpenBSD mirror server URL. Like, for example:

https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD

That's it. One line. Main character energy, minimal effort 🫶

It gets created by the installer script — both during installations and during upgrades, so you're not out here hand-writing it like a peasant 💀

And the parsing rules? Super chill:

• Empty lines are ignored 🙈
• Lines beginning with # are also ignored (comments, babe 💬)

So don't stress if you see some blank space or a lil # note — the system just skips right past it 🔥

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🦋 FILES 🦋

• /etc/installurl — the one and only 💖

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• pkg_add(1)
• syspatch(8)
• sysupgrade(8)

all of them are out here using this file, iykyk 👑

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ngl this page is tiny but it's giving "small but mighty" — do NOT sleep on /etc/installurl okay, it's literally how your box knows where to shop 🛍️

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🎀 that's the whole thing bestie, mwah 💋 — this was the INSTALLURL(5) page from the Debian source, dated April 27, 2019 ⭐ 🦋