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Welcome to the OpenBSD ports collection.
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For more information on the OpenBSD ports tree please visit
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http://www.openbsd.org/ports.html
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For general information on the OpenBSD tree please visit
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http://www.openbsd.org
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1998-03-29 13:29:45 -05:00
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The OpenBSD ports tree is always growing. Therefor it is essential
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that you continue to update your ports dir thru cvs or ftp.
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1998-10-08 20:13:06 -04:00
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No matter how fast we update the tree it seems that we are always
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behind. For this reason you will sometimes find a port that is
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marked as BROKEN. If you try to build the port you will see a
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message something like:
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===> xxx-1.0 is marked as broken: newer version available.
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This means we know there is a newer version of the application but
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have not yet had time to update the port. If you get this message
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all may not be lost. If the old sources are still available (and
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this is often the case) you can force a build using the old sources
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using the command:
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make NO_IGNORE=yes
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sudo make NO_IGNORE=yes install
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If youre feeling generous a better solution is to update the port
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to use the new sources and feed the changes back to the project.
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If you are interested in contributing (or creating a new port)
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please visit
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http://www.openbsd.org/porting.html
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If you would like to search for a given port, you can do so easily
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by saying:
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make search key="<keyword>"
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Which will generate a list of all ports matching <keyword>.
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NOTE: This tree can GROW significantly in size during normal usage!
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The distribution tar files can and do accumulate in /usr/ports/distfiles,
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and the individual ports will also use up lots of space in their work
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subdirectories unless you remember to "make clean" after you're done
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building a given port. /usr/ports/distfiles can also be periodically
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cleaned without ill-effect, though if you don't have the original
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distribution tarball(s) for something on CDROM then you will need to pull
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it all over your network connection again if you ever try to build the
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associated port.
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For help or other information
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Please sendmail to
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ports@OpenBSD.ORG
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