On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 10:52:16AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> I recommend making /usr/ports a separate filesystem and keep the default 
> dirs for most things.
> 
> Pointing WRKOBJDIR at a less important fs is a good idea for when the 
> kernel crashes during a build. Then newfs is a viable and faster cleanup 
> strategy than fsck.
> 
> Set SUDO and PORTS_PRIVSEP in mk.conf, and run "make fix-permissions" in 
> the dir for any port to create the dirs and set ownership.

I've read man pages, handbooks, also related info in
/etc/examples/doas.conf.  Depending on which doc you read, the approach
is different.  With each thing I tried, things got more and more
entangled, I don't know what commands are called by bsd.ports.mk to
install, I added all pkg_* ones to /etc/doas.conf without password for
my normal user but running 'make package', doas still asked me for
passwords.  I said, "Enough!" when doas asked me the password running
make as root. :-)

Honestly, the ports system does not seem to be part of OpenBSD.  I stand
by what I said last, I won't touching anything, leave the permissions as
they are and work as root.

> 
> I think the tars are fixed in 7.8, but why ftp and then cvs to get any 
> updates, when you could just fetch via cvs anyway?

I fetch ports directly with cvs from your server.

> 
> -- 
>   Sent from a phone, apologies for poor formatting.
> 
> On 9 November 2025 22:53:28 j@bitminer.ca wrote:
> 
> > Why do it the hard way when you can script it?
> >
> > cat myports.sh
> > ftp https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/ports.tar.gz
> > tar xzpf ports.tar.gz -C /usr
> >
> > osver=`uname -r`
> > mkdir -p /usr/distfiles /usr/obj/ports
> > mkdir -p /usr/cache/pub/OpenBSD/$osver/packages/amd64
> >
> > chown metheuser:metheuser /usr/distfiles
> > /usr/cache/pub/OpenBSD/$osver/packages/amd64
> > chown metheuser:metheuser /usr/obj/ports
> >
> > chmod 775 /usr/obj
> >
> > chown metheuser:metheuser /usr/ports
> > chown -R metheuser:metheuser /usr/ports
> >
> >> /etc/mk.conf
> > echo WRKOBJDIR=/usr/obj/ports >> /etc/mk.conf
> > echo DISTDIR=/usr/distfiles   >> /etc/mk.conf
> > echo PACKAGE_REPOSITORY=/usr/cache/pub/OpenBSD/$osver/packages >>
> > /etc/mk.conf
> >
> >
> > At this point metheuser can "cd /usr/ports/math/minisat"
> > and "make package" and it will work.
> >
> > Note that the original tar file creates files with group = wheel so you
> > can simplify by adding yourself to wheel.
> >
> > Note that the tar files are incomplete because tar and you have to
> > update with
> >
> >     cd /usr/ports
> >     cvs -d $YOURMIRROR:/cvs -q up -Pd
> >
> > where YOURMIRROR is one of the published ones, but probably not one of
> > the first two or three.
> >
> >
> > J
> 

-- 
Walter