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 <li><a href="#Example">Example Use of the Ports Tree</a></li>  <li><a href="#Example">Example Use of the Ports Tree</a></li>
 <li><a href="#Advanced">Advanced Usage of the Ports Tree</a></li>  <li><a href="#Advanced">Advanced Usage of the Ports Tree</a></li>
 <li><a href="#Create">Creating New Ports</a></li>  <li><a href="#Create">Creating New Ports</a></li>
   <li><a href="#Lag">When a Port Is Lagging Behind the Mainstream Version</a></li>
 <li><a href="#Help">Problems and Contacts</a></li>  <li><a href="#Help">Problems and Contacts</a></li>
 </ul>  </ul>
   
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 That page references the  That page references the
 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/porters-handbook/">FreeBSD Porter's Handbook</a>  <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/porters-handbook/">FreeBSD Porter's Handbook</a>
 as well as OpenBSD specific policies and hints.  as well as OpenBSD specific policies and hints.
   
   <h3><font color="#0000e0"><a name="Lag">When a Port Is Lagging Behind the Mainstream Version</a></font></h3>
   
   <p>
   The ports collection is a volunteer project. Sometimes the project simply
   doesn't have the developer resources to keep everything up-to-date.
   Developers pretty much pick up what they consider interesting and can
   test in their environment. Your <a href="goals.html#funding">donations</a>
   count for what platforms the ports can be tested on.
   </p>
   
   <p>
   Some individual ports may lag behind the mainstream versions because of this.
   The ports collection may have a version back of a program from January while a new
   version of the program has been released by its developers in May three months ago.
   Often this is a conscious decision; the new version may have problems in it on
   OpenBSD that the maintainer is trying to solve, or that have simply made the
   application worse than the old version: OpenBSD may have different
   <a href="goals.html">goals</a> than the mainstream developers in other projects,
   which sometimes results in features and design or implementation choices
   that are undesirable from OpenBSD developers' point of view. The update may also be
   postponed because the new version is not considered a crucial update.
   </p>
   
   <p>
   If you really need a new version of a port, you should ask the <tt>MAINTAINER</tt>
   of the port to update the port (see <a href="#Help">below</a> on how to find out who
   the maintainer is); if you can send patches for this, all the better. To create proper
   patches, you should refer to the <a href="porting.html">documentation on building
   ports</a>.
   </p>
   
 <h3><font color="#0000e0"><a name="Help">Problems and Contacts</a></font></h3>  <h3><font color="#0000e0"><a name="Help">Problems and Contacts</a></font></h3>
   
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