Porting

• Ports foils - Marc Espie, 2005
• Advanced Porting foils - Michael Erderly, December 2007
• Porting Tutorial foils - by Berndt Ahlers, 2007
• Building an OpenBSD port - OpenBSD.org
• Maintainer's Guide to Port Updating
• Undeadly.org Tutorial, 2008
• Porting Checklist - OpenBSD.org
• bsd.port.mk
• TBA

• /usr/ports/distfiles copies of downloaded files
• /usr/obj/ports scratch area for building ports
• /usr/ports/plist PLISTs of installed ports
• /var/db/pkg PLISTs of installed packages

• Setup .profile and checkout/update ports tree
• Setup /etc/mk.conf

  • SUDO=/usr/bin/sudo
    PLIST_DB=${PORTSDIR}/plist
    WRKOBJDIR=/usr/obj/ports
    USE_SYSTRACE=Yes
    

• Fix filesystem permissions
  • add your user to wsrc group
  • fix permissions:
    • sudo chgrp -R wsrc /usr/ports
    • sudo chgrp -R wsrc /usr/obj/ports
  • make directories writable:
    • sudo find /usr/ports -type d -exec chmod g+w {} \;
    • sudo find /usr/obj/ports -type d -exec chmod g+w {} \;
• see also: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PortsConfig

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