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OpenBSD ports mechanism

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History

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! OpenBSD is a fairly complete system of its own, but still there are a lot of ! software that one might want see added. However there is the problem on where ! to draw the line on what to include and not, as well as licensing and export ! restrictions problems. 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". After ! thinking about it for a while we decided to try to use their collection as is, ! feeding back necessary patches to make the ports work on OpenBSD as well ! to the FreeBSD maintainers. !

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Short description and setup

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! The ports idea is to have, for each piece of software, a Makefile that ! describes where to fetch it, how to do the fetch, what it is depending upon ! (if anything), how to alter the sources (if needed) and how to configure, ! build and install it. Furthermore some patches will have to be kept in the ! "port" as well as some administration files for the package registry utilities. ! Normally this information is kept in an hierarchy under /usr/ports (however, ! this is configurable). I recommend reading the ! ports chapter in the ! FreeBSD handbook to get ! information on how to setup this hierarchy. A current gzipped tar-archive ! of the FreeBSD ports can be found ! here ! . !

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Example

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! Let's say you managed to get a ports tree sitting under /usr/ports, then you ! should be able to something like this: ! 

  cd /usr/ports/archivers/unzip
  make
  su
  make install
  exit
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! Easy, huh? !

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Problems and contacts

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! As the ports collection really is a FreeBSD thing, there are ports that do not ! work in OpenBSD for various reasons. If you find such a port contact either ! Niklas Hallqvist or ! Warner Losh and give us either patches ! on how to fix things or, if you cannot do this, point us at the problematic ! port and tell us what fails and we shall try to fix it. !

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! OpenBSD ! www@openbsd.org !
! $OpenBSD: ports.html,v 1.4 1997/06/13 02:22:28 downsj Exp $ ! ! ! --- 1,82 ---- ! ! ! ! OpenBSD ports mechanism ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! [OpenBSD] !

OpenBSD ports mechanism

!

!

History

!

! OpenBSD is a fairly complete system of its own, but still there are a lot of ! software that one might want see added. However there is the problem on where ! to draw the line on what to include and not, as well as licensing and export ! restrictions problems. 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". After ! thinking about it for a while we decided to try to use their collection as is, ! feeding back necessary patches to make the ports work on OpenBSD as well ! to the FreeBSD maintainers. !

!

Short description and setup

!

! The ports idea is to have, for each piece of software, a Makefile that ! describes where to fetch it, how to do the fetch, what it is depending upon ! (if anything), how to alter the sources (if needed) and how to configure, ! build and install it. Furthermore some patches will have to be kept in the ! "port" as well as some administration files for the package registry utilities. ! Normally this information is kept in an hierarchy under /usr/ports (however, ! this is configurable). I recommend reading the ! ports chapter in the ! FreeBSD handbook to get ! information on how to setup this hierarchy. A current gzipped tar-archive ! of the FreeBSD ports can be found ! here ! . !

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Example

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! Let's say you managed to get a ports tree sitting under /usr/ports, then you ! should be able to something like this: ! 

  cd /usr/ports/archivers/unzip
  make
  su
  make install
  exit
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! Easy, huh? !

!

Problems and contacts

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! As the ports collection really is a FreeBSD thing, there are ports that do not ! work in OpenBSD for various reasons. But this is going to change in the near future. ! Our ports coordinator has set up a ! page with the current status ! - what is done, what is being worked on right now, on what architecture, etc. ! If you have trouble with ports contact either ! Stanislav Grozev (preferably), ! Niklas Hallqvist or ! Warner Losh and give us either patches ! on how to fix things or, if you cannot do this, point us at the problematic ! port and tell us what fails and we shall try to fix it. !

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! OpenBSD ! www@openbsd.org !
! $OpenBSD: ports.html,v 1.5 1997/09/17 11:14:21 tacho Exp $ ! !