=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/www/Attic/ports.html,v retrieving revision 1.22 retrieving revision 1.23 diff -c -r1.22 -r1.23 *** www/Attic/ports.html 1998/07/04 22:02:41 1.22 --- www/Attic/ports.html 1998/11/17 01:10:30 1.23 *************** *** 23,35 **** OpenBSD is a fairly complete system of its own, but still there is a lot of software that one might want see added. However there is the problem on where to draw the line as to what to include, as well as the occasional ! licensing and export restriction problems. In what is supposed to be ! small stand-alone UNIX-like operating system, some things just can't be shipped with the system.
We wanted to find a way for users to easily get software we don't provide ! and started to look around. We didn't have to look far as a sibling project, ! FreeBSD, had an excellent mechanism for exactly this purpose called "The ports collection".
--- 23,36 ---- OpenBSD is a fairly complete system of its own, but still there is a lot of software that one might want see added. However there is the problem on where to draw the line as to what to include, as well as the occasional ! licensing and export restriction problems. As OpenBSD is supposed to be ! a small stand-alone UNIX-like operating system, some things just can't be shipped with the system.
We wanted to find a way for users to easily get software we don't provide ! and started to look around. We didn't have to look far, as sibling project ! FreeBSD already had an ! excellent mechanism for exactly this purpose called "The ports collection".
*************** *** 70,81 **** You can also ftp the 2.3 version from the pub/OpenBSD/2.3 directory on any of the ftp mirror sites. Note: this version, also on the 2.3 CDROM, is not the most ! recent version. You likely want to get and use a newer version
Let's say you managed to get a ports tree and you want to compile and
install the archiving utility unzip
. You should be able to
! something like:
% cd /usr/ports/archivers/unzip % su --- 71,82 ---- You can also ftp the 2.3 version from the pub/OpenBSD/2.3 directory on any of the ftp mirror sites. Note: this version, also on the 2.3 CDROM, is not the most ! recent version. You likely will want to get and use a newer versionExample use of the Ports tree
Let's say you managed to get a ports tree and you want to compile and install the archiving utility
unzip
. You should be able to ! do something like this:% cd /usr/ports/archivers/unzip % su *************** *** 103,119 **** as well as OpenBSD specific policies and hints.Problems and contacts
! If you have trouble with ports please send mail to the OpenBSD ports mailing list, ports@OpenBSD.ORG. ! Patches are always appreciated, but in any case please provide:
uname -a
!