=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/ports/README,v retrieving revision 1.3 retrieving revision 1.11 diff -u -r1.3 -r1.11 --- ports/README 1998/10/09 00:13:06 1.3 +++ ports/README 2001/11/01 22:59:37 1.11 @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ + Welcome to the OpenBSD ports collection. For more information on the OpenBSD ports tree please visit http://www.openbsd.org/ports.html @@ -5,49 +6,288 @@ http://www.openbsd.org -The OpenBSD ports tree is always growing. Therefor it is essential -that you continue to update your ports dir thru cvs or ftp. +====================================================================== -No matter how fast we update the tree it seems that we are always -behind. For this reason you will sometimes find a port that is -marked as BROKEN. If you try to build the port you will see a -message something like: +This file is mostly obsolete. You should refer to the corresponding +man-pages: ports(7), packages(7), mirroring-ports(7), packages-specs (7), +and bsd.port.mk(5) instead. - ===> xxx-1.0 is marked as broken: newer version available. +====================================================================== -This means we know there is a newer version of the application but -have not yet had time to update the port. If you get this message -all may not be lost. If the old sources are still available (and -this is often the case) you can force a build using the old sources -using the command: +Contacts +======== +* individual ports have a MAINTAINER. +Go to the port directory and use make show=MAINTAINER to see it. +* ports without explicit maintainers, and other general issues should +go to ports@openbsd.org - make NO_IGNORE=yes - sudo make NO_IGNORE=yes install +Considering the size of the ports tree, and even though we strive to +eradicate all bugs, things may go wrong on individual ports. +In such a case, as a general rule, try to contact the MAINTAINER first. +If nothing happens after a reasonable delay, start plaguing him, +or go to the next step. -If youre feeling generous a better solution is to update the port -to use the new sources and feed the changes back to the project. -If you are interested in contributing (or creating a new port) -please visit +Developers with a major investment in the ports tree include +Brad Smith , Christian Weisberger , +Marc Espie . - http://www.openbsd.org/porting.html +Those people can be contacted to put some pressure on a lazy maintainer. +But we do read ports@openbsd.org, so... -If you would like to search for a given port, you can do so easily -by saying: +The ports tree +============== +The ports tree usually live under /usr/ports. It's a hierarchical +list of recipes to build various pieces of software. +We'll call that PORTSDIR in the following discussion. +Stuff that doesn't constitute a port proper, but rather paraphernalia, +is stored under /usr/ports/infrastructure, INFRA in the following +discussion. - make search key="" +The main Makefile, PORTSDIR/Makefile, can be used to obtain various +information. -Which will generate a list of all ports matching . +* make key= describe +will locate ports that match the given keyword in the Index and print +information about them. -NOTE: This tree can GROW significantly in size during normal usage! -The distribution tar files can and do accumulate in /usr/ports/distfiles, -and the individual ports will also use up lots of space in their work -subdirectories unless you remember to "make clean" after you're done -building a given port. /usr/ports/distfiles can also be periodically -cleaned without ill-effect, though if you don't have the original -distribution tarball(s) for something on CDROM then you will need to pull -it all over your network connection again if you ever try to build the -associated port. +* make index +can be used to rebuild that INDEX, normally useful after you update your +ports dir through cvs. -For help or other information -Please sendmail to -ports@OpenBSD.ORG +* make readmes +will populate the ports tree with a set of html indices (currently somewhat +broken). + +The script INFRA/build/out-of-date will find +discrepancies between your installed packages and the INDEX. This might +give you an hint as to what you would need to rebuild to update a machine. + +Some useful `make' trivia +========================= +* if you always use some make variables, e.g., DISTDIR, CLEANDEPENDS, or +MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE you can put this in your local make configuration +file instead: /etc/mk.conf. +* starting with 2.6, make can deal with case issues, so CLEANDEPENDS=Yes +or CLEANDEPENDS=YES or even CLEANDEPENDS=yEs should be equivalent. +* the make process uses some subroutines out of /usr/share/mk. Starting +with 2.6, the `port' subroutines live in INFRA/mk. +The bsd.port.mk and bsd.port.subdir.mk in /usr/share/mk are only stubs +that redirect to those files. + +Building a port +=============== +It's usually as simple as +cd category/portname && make && make install + +That specific `make' will normally +* resolve dependencies and go out to install required ports recursively +* fetch the software source (`distfiles' and `distribution patches') +from the available media into your repository +* extract the source +* apply distribution patches and OpenBSD patches +* build the program + +`make install' will +* install the software in a special playpen directory (the fake area) +* create a binary package out of that fake-install +* install the package on your system + +Some ports can have some options (flavors), or demand that you make some choice +before building, e.g., +cd /usr/ports/editors/vim/stable +env FLAVOR=no_x11 make all install + +Some ports may give you some information about ways to build them. +Likewise, installing or uninstalling +a package may give you useful information. READ IT. + +You can also use +* `make clean=install' to remove the installed software (calls pkg_delete) +* `make package' to create a binary package without necessarily installing +it. Packages normally end up in /usr/ports/packages/${MACHINE_ARCH}, +overridable with PACKAGES. +* `make clean=package' to remove a previously built package. +* `make clean' to remove all scaffolding after the port is built and +installed. +* `make clean=dist' to also remove distfiles and distribution patches +from the repository +* `make clean=depends' will also remove sub ports that have been +recursively built. +* `make clean="depends dist"', guess what this does. + +Please note that, in normal use, the OpenBSD ports tree will grow quite +a lot. Starting with OpenBSD 3.0, working directories for packaged ports +can be cleaned out. See the bulk-packages target. +However, the distfiles and built +packages still can take a lot of space (over 1 Gb). +You can redirect ports activity elsewhere by making use of WRKOBJDIR, +DISTDIR and PACKAGES. `find /usr/ports -type d -name w-\* -print' +can be useful to find out ports you forgot to clean out. + +Where do the distfiles come from +================================ +Retrieving distfiles is a subpart of `make' that can be invoked separately +as `make fetch'. + +Starting with 2.6, the fetch process is configurable by editing +INFRA/db/network.conf. + +The ports tree does store files it retrieves in a repository area, +normally /usr/ports/distfiles (defined as DISTDIR=${PORTSDIR}/distfiles; +you can override this if you need; e.g., assuming you've got a cdrom +full of distfiles mounted under /cdrom, you can make stuff with +DISTDIR=/cdrom/distfiles, provided all the distfiles are available on +the CD-Rom). + +If the file is found in the repository, the build process continues. +In some rare cases, vendors change their archive contents without changing +the archive name, so the file in the repository may end up having a wrong +checksum. Or, if you aborted a network transfer, the file in the repository +may be truncated, and end up having a wrong checksum again. In such a case, +manual intervention is required (it was deemed that such problems may need +human expertise and that blindly removing distfiles was not a good idea). +It's usually as simple as deleting the offending file, or doing a +make distclean. + +To avoid building from corrupted archives, the ports tree holds checksums +for almost all files it retrieves from other media (a few ports ignore +checksums from the files listed in IGNOREFILES). +Those are strong cryptographic checksums: sha1, rmd160, and md5, +in that order. See CIPHERS and PREFERRED_CIPHERS in +INFRA/mk/bsd.port.mk for details. + +If the directory /cdrom/distfiles exist, available distfiles are copied +off that directory to your repository. You can avoid the copy overhead +by defining FETCH_SYMLINK_DISTFILES. You can give another location for +the distfiles as CDROM_SITE. + +OpenBSD `ftp' command is normally used to fetch distfiles off the net, +so all file addresses are given in URL format. +Each port uses its own set of sites, and there should also be backups of +the distribution files on ftp.openbsd.org. MASTER_SITE_BACKUP holds an +overridable list of backup sites, normally +ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/ +ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/ + +You can ask the fetch process to try to retrieve files from those sites first +by setting MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE, e.g., +make MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE='${MASTER_SITE_BACKUP}' + +You can retrieve file from the OpenBSD site only with +make MASTER_SITE_OPENBSD=Yes + +Continuing our CD-Rom example, you could also fetch files off a CD-Rom into +your repository for safe-keeping by using the following incantation: +make fetch MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE='file:/cdrom/${DIST_SUBDIR}/' +This is equivalent to using CDROM_SITE. + +Some common sites have their own variables. It is strongly recommended +that you edit the INFRA/db/network.conf file for +your site. + +Please refer to that file for a complete list, and address lists +(those are not exhaustive). Those include: +MASTER_SITE_GNU FSF and other GPL programs +MASTER_SITE_XCONTRIB X11 contributed software +MASTER_SITE_SUNSITE Sunsite site and mirror, major linux archive +MASTER_SITE_GNOME Gnome +MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN Comprehensive perl archive network +MASTER_SITE_TEX_CTAN Comprehensive TeX archive network +MASTER_SITE_KDE KDE +MASTER_SITE_TCLTK Tcl/Tk +MASTER_SITE_AFTERSTEP AfterStep +MASTER_SITE_WINDOWMAKER WindowMaker + +There is a backup copy of that file in +INFRA/templates/network.conf.template. + +In case you don't have a permanent network connection, you should read +mirroring-ports(7). + +Building several ports +====================== +Each category directory holds a Makefile that propagates commands to +its sub ports, e.g., if you cd /usr/ports/audio && make package, this should +build packages for all ports under /usr/ports/audio. + +A more useful command is the +INFRA/package/check-plist script. +You normally prepare a list of the ports you want to build, in the same +format as INFRA/db/essentials, and pass it to that script. +This yields a sorted list of the required ports. + +You can filter ports that require interaction out with +make BATCH=yes + +Files Summary +============= +/usr/ports (PORTSDIR): + the whole port collection +/usr/ports//: + where to find a given port +/usr/ports/INDEX: + all distfiles, rebuilt with make index +/usr/ports/distfiles (DISTFILES): + repository for distribution files and distribution patches +/cdrom/distfiles (CDROM_SITE): + standard location for distfiles off a CD +/usr/ports/packages/${MACHINE_ARCH} (PACKAGES): + where binary packages are built (by category. Normally everything + ends up under All, with symlinks for each category) +/usr/ports///w-${PKGNAME}: + where the ports mechanism does the building. This is normally a + real directory, but you can set WRKOBJDIR to point to another + base which is not /usr/ports, and work/ will be a link to + ${WRKOBJDIR}/category/portname/work. This can be useful to + mount a master /usr/ports directory by NFS on several + architectures. Normally, you first + cd /usr/ports && make WRKOBJDIR=path obj + on the master machine, which creates the symbolic links, so that + you can mount your master /usr/ports read-only. +/usr/ports///pkg/SECURITY: + information relative to a security audit of the port. Usually + missing. +/usr/ports/infrastructure: + paraphernalia around the ports tree +/usr/ports/db/network.conf: + your local network configuration (ftp sites) +/var/db/pkg: + installed ports, see pkg_add(1). +/usr/local (LOCALBASE): + where normal ports install themselves. + +Other tweaks +============ +NO_IGNORE: coerce fetch, build, install... into doing their job even though +there might be a good reason not to. Good reasons include BROKEN, +ONLY_FOR_ARCH, IS_INTERACTIVE in BATCH mode. This is a dangerous option. + +Keeping up with the Jones, ports as a moving target +=================================================== +The OpenBSD ports tree is growing from release to release. It needs +people to write and test new ports. +Like for src, you can choose to live on the bleeding edge by updating +your ports dir thru cvs or ftp, and contribute bug-reports. You must +update both ports and src in synch. + +If you prefer to stay with a stable release, we try to make sure +the distfiles for a given release stay on the OpenBSD site between +releases. + +No matter how fast we update the tree it seems that we are always +behind. There are always new version of software out there, without +an existing port. Very often, no-one had time to update the port yet, +or it is very likely that the new version has not been tested enough +yet to deem it reasonable to upgrade the port. + +You may wish to contribute, by updating ports or creating new ports. +please visit + + http://www.openbsd.org/porting.html + +and always remember to communicate with OpenBSD project members on +ports@openbsd.org. Why create a brand new shiny port to discover that +someone was already working on it, and they committed their new version +ten minutes before you announced yours ? + +$OpenBSD: README,v 1.11 2001/11/01 22:59:37 espie Exp $