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1.2       joey        1:                Welcome to the OpenBSD ports collection.
                      2:        For more information on the OpenBSD ports tree please visit
                      3:                   http://www.openbsd.org/ports.html
                      4:        For general information on the OpenBSD tree please visit
                      5:                        http://www.openbsd.org
1.1       joey        6:
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1.2       joey        8: The OpenBSD ports tree is always growing. Therefor it is essential
1.1       joey        9: that you continue to update your ports dir thru cvs or ftp.
                     10:
1.3     ! marc       11: No matter how fast we update the tree it seems that we are always
        !            12: behind.  For this reason you will sometimes find a port that is
        !            13: marked as BROKEN.  If you try to build the port you will see a
        !            14: message something like:
        !            15:
        !            16:    ===> xxx-1.0 is marked as broken: newer version available.
        !            17:
        !            18: This means we know there is a newer version of the application but
        !            19: have not yet had time to update the port.  If you get this message
        !            20: all may not be lost.  If the old sources are still available (and
        !            21: this is often the case) you can force a build using the old sources
        !            22: using the command:
        !            23:
        !            24:        make NO_IGNORE=yes
        !            25:        sudo make NO_IGNORE=yes install
        !            26:
        !            27: If youre feeling generous a better solution is to update the port
        !            28: to use the new sources and feed the changes back to the project.
        !            29: If you are interested in contributing (or creating a new port)
        !            30: please visit
        !            31:
1.1       joey       32:        http://www.openbsd.org/porting.html
1.3     ! marc       33:
1.1       joey       34: If you would like to search for a given port, you can do so easily
                     35: by saying:
                     36:
                     37:        make search key="<keyword>"
                     38:
                     39: Which will generate a list of all ports matching <keyword>.
                     40:
                     41: NOTE:  This tree can GROW significantly in size during normal usage!
                     42: The distribution tar files can and do accumulate in /usr/ports/distfiles,
                     43: and the individual ports will also use up lots of space in their work
                     44: subdirectories unless you remember to "make clean" after you're done
                     45: building a given port.  /usr/ports/distfiles can also be periodically
                     46: cleaned without ill-effect, though if you don't have the original
                     47: distribution tarball(s) for something on CDROM then you will need to pull
                     48: it all over your network connection again if you ever try to build the
                     49: associated port.
                     50:
                     51: For help or other information
                     52: Please sendmail to
                     53: ports@OpenBSD.ORG