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<h3><font color="#0000e0">OpenBSD Porting Policy</font></h3>

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<li>OpenBSD does NOT use /usr/local/etc/rc.d.<br>

<li>OpenBSD does NOT use <code>/usr/local/etc/rc.d</code>.<br>

<code>/usr/local</code> is often shared between several machines

thanks to NFS. For this reason, configuration files that are specific

to a given machine can't be stored under <code>/usr/local</code>,

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DES encryption is part of the standard <code>libc</code>.

<li>OpenBSD is strongly security-oriented. You should read and understand

this page's <a href="#security">security section</a>.

<li>Be sure to add the <code>$</code><code>OpenBSD$</code> CVS tag to

<li>Be sure to add the <code>$OpenBSD$</code> CVS tag to

the Makefile. If importing a port from another system be sure to

leave their tag in the Makefile, too. However, replace the FreeBSD

<code>$</code><code>Id$</code> tag with the

<code>$Id$</code> tag with the

<code>$</code><code>FreeBSD$</code> tag.

<code>$FreeBSD$</code> tag.

<li>The goal is to get all ported applications to support OpenBSD. To

achieve this goal you <strong>must</strong> feed any OpenBSD patches

back to the application maintainer.