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OpenBSD/powerpc port renamed



Hello folks,

  Dale Rahn and myself have done recent changes in -current, which have
caused the OpenBSD/powerpc port to change name. It is now called
OpenBSD/macppc.

  What does this change for OpenBSD/powerpc users?

- if you're sticking to 2.9-stable, you're not affected. Just remember,
  when it will be time to upgrade to a newer release, that the port name
  has changed.

- if you're tracking -current via source, follow the usual release(8)
  directives. Be sure to run your ``make build'' under a -current
  kernel, otherwise you won't get your userland configured correctly.

- if you're tracking -current via snapshots, just remember to look in
  snapshots/macppc now (a snapshot of OpenBSD/macppc will hit the ftp
  mirrors soon).

- the ports tree will probably need some fixes to make some applications
  work again on OpenBSD/macppc, especially applications using autoconf.
  Since the ports tree is tracking OpenBSD-current, this will be fixed
  in time by our marvelous ports squad. Compiled packages will still end
  in a ``powerpc'' directory.

Please report problems due to the port name change to the appropriate
mailinglists (misc@ for base system problems, ports@ for ports
problems).

Thanks for reading,
Miod