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OpenBSD ports mechanism
-
-History
+History
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
@@ -31,8 +30,7 @@
problems between FreeBSD and OpenBSD we decided to branch out and create
our very own OpenBSD Ports Project using FreeBSD's as a starting point.
This also allows us to tune the ports better to our system.
-
-Short description and setup
+Short description and setup
The ports idea is to have, for each piece of software, a Makefile that
- Describes where to fetch it,
@@ -49,8 +47,18 @@
chapter in the FreeBSD handbook
to get information on how to setup this hierarchy until OpenBSD can complete
its own ports.helpfile
-
-Example
+Getting the Ports tree
+The ports source tree is available in several ways:
+
+- You can ftp the 2.2 version of it from the pub/OpenBSD/2.2 directory
+ on any of the ftp mirror sites.
+
- You can use AnonCVS to get the most recent
+ version of it, using essentially "cvs get ports".
+
+(Note: the version of the ports tree on the 2.2 CDROM is not the most
+recent version. You likely want to get and use a newer version).
+
+Example use of the Ports tree
Let's say you managed to get a ports tree sitting under /usr/ports, then
you should be able to something like this:
@@ -61,8 +69,7 @@
# exit
Easy, huh?
-
-Problems and contacts
+Problems and contacts
Our ports coordinator is currently
working on a ports status page.
@@ -78,7 +85,7 @@
www@openbsd.org
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$OpenBSD: ports.html,v 1.13 1997/11/30 14:31:46 deraadt Exp $
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$OpenBSD: ports.html,v 1.14 1997/11/30 14:42:39 deraadt Exp $