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1.9       joey       14:
1.11      deraadt    15: <h2>OpenBSD ports mechanism</H2>
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                     17: <h3>
                     18: <b>History</b></h3>
1.9       joey       19: OpenBSD is a fairly complete system of its own, but still there is a lot
                     20: of software that one might want see added. However there is the problem
1.11      deraadt    21: on where to draw the line as to what to include, as well as the occasional
                     22: licensing and export restriction problems.
                     23: In what is supposed to be small stand-alone unix-like operating system,
                     24: some things just can't be shipped with the system.
1.10      deraadt    25: We wanted to find a way for users to easily get software we don't provide
                     26: and started to look around. We didn't have to look far as a sibling project,
1.11      deraadt    27: <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</a>, had an excellent mechanism
                     28: for exactly this purpose called
                     29: <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/ports/">"The ports collection"</a>.
                     30: At first we tried to use their collection as-is, but due to incompatibility
                     31: problems between FreeBSD and OpenBSD we decided to branch out and create
                     32: our very own OpenBSD Ports Project using FreeBSD's as a starting point.
                     33: This also allows us to tune the ports better to our system.
                     34: <br>&nbsp;
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                     36: <b>Short description and setup</b></h3>
1.9       joey       37: The ports idea is to have, for each piece of software, a Makefile that
1.11      deraadt    38: <ul>
                     39: <li>Describes where to fetch it,
                     40: <li>How to do the fetch,
                     41: <li>What it is depending upon (if anything),
                     42: <li>how to alter the sources (if needed),
                     43: <li>and how to configure, build and install it.
                     44: </ul>
                     45: <p>
                     46: Normally this information is kept in an hierarchy under /usr/ports
1.10      deraadt    47: (however, this is configurable).
                     48: <p>
1.11      deraadt    49: We recommend reading the <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ports.html">ports
                     50: chapter</a> in the <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/">FreeBSD handbook</a>
1.9       joey       51: to get information on how to setup this hierarchy until OpenBSD can complete
1.10      deraadt    52: its own ports.helpfile
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                     54: <b>Example</b></h3>
1.9       joey       55: Let's say you managed to get a ports tree sitting under /usr/ports, then
                     56: you should be able to something like this:
1.11      deraadt    57: <pre>
1.10      deraadt    58: % cd /usr/ports/archivers/unzip
                     59: % make
                     60: % su
                     61: # make install
                     62: # exit
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1.9       joey       64: Easy, huh?
1.11      deraadt    65: <h3>
                     66: <b>Problems and contacts</b></h3>
                     67: Our <a href="mailto:joey@openbsd.org">ports coordinator</a> is currently
                     68: working on a ports status page.
                     69: <p>
                     70: If you have trouble with ports contact
                     71: <a href="mailto:joey@openbsd.org">Ejovi Nuwere</a> (preferably),
                     72: <a href="mailto:gene@openbsd.org">Gene Skonicki</a>, or
                     73: <a href="mailto:todd@openbsd.org">Todd Tyrone Fries</a>.
                     74: <p>
                     75: Please provide either patches or enough details for repair, if you
                     76: cannot do this, point us at the problematic port and tell us what
                     77: fails and we shall try to fix it.
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