Re: openbsd in general

[Warner Losh <imp@village.org>]

In message <199707011122.HAA01624@shandakor.tharsis.com> George Robbins writes:
: Yeah, it would be "really nice", but with a finite development team there's
: no point in duplicating the excellent job that the FreeBSD people have done,
: with both their ports and packages efforts.

I have always accepted patches and tried to apply them in a timely
manner to the FreeBSD ports tree to make life much easier for the
OpenBSD community.  So far only Niklas has sent me patches.  Everybody
else has just complained. I don't have the time needed to make the
whole ports tree work on OpenBSD.  I do have the time to integrate and
coordinate others that may want to work on a portion of the tree.  The
FreeBSD folks have put the needed hooks into the bsd.ports.mk files to
allow for multiple OSes to share them.  For some ports we'll need to
have our own version of the patches because of differences in the
underlying OS.  For most ports, they just work.  Sadly the ones that
don't work require a bit of effort to make work outside of the FreeBSD
environment.

So if you have patches or fixes to the ports, please lemme know!

Warner