OpenBSD 7.2

General information

OpenBSD 7.2 was released on 2022-10-20. It contains 11455 packages with a total size of 61.603.905.586 bytes (58750 MiB).

How to determine package stats

wget http://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/packages/amd64/ -Oopenbsd72packages.html
# Number of packages
grep "<a href" openbsd72packages.html | wc -l
# Total size of all packages
grep "<a href" openbsd72packages.html | awk -F' ' '{print $NF}' | awk '{sum+=$1}END{print sum}'

diff in xinitrc

After the first boot, a message was shown that /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc was modified and that a new version would be available. In order to look at the differences, I used

find / -name xinitrc

to find the new file. The location was

/tmp/sysmerge.2CBIiNo9iG/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

diff showed me that I changed the window manager from fvwm to openbox and OpenBSD brought in some changes. So I ran sysmerge and told it to install the new version. After that, I modified xinitrc again so it would start openbox-session.