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Sebastian Reitenbach <sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de>
Subject:
Re: unbreak misc/rocrail
To:
ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date:
Sun, 17 May 2026 16:11:58 +0200

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Hi,

I was pointed out by ian@, that the diff was missing the removal of all the
patches.

attached version includes that missing piece.


Sebastian

On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 3:18 PM Sebastian Reitenbach <
sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de> wrote:

> checking in again, would love to re-enable misc/rocrail
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 2, 2026 at 10:04 PM Sebastian Reitenbach <
> sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> misc/rocrail was marked BROKEN about 3 years ago, due to the wxWidgets
>> update that happened at that time.
>> Finally I got around looking at it. I had to realize, that since the
>> version we have in ports, a few years later, Rocrail went closed source.
>> Found as it seems the last GPL open source on GH, and forked it, to be
>> able to address the wxWidget issues. While there, fix compilation issues,
>> and a couple of other smaller bugs I came across while testing.
>>
>> Even though it's old, this, now again, works quite well for me. Tested
>> with a train on main track as well as programming track.
>> Also while testing, I tested other model railroad related ports. I found
>> that for some reason, misc/srcpd is quite unstable with my OpenDCC Z1. But
>> enabling the srcpd daemon in Rocrail, misc/spdrs60 and misc/dtcltiny using
>> this srcpd daemon, work like a charm.
>>
>> Are there still any digital model railroaders around?
>> Testing/feedback etc. would be welcome.
>>
>> At least for me, this re-enables model railroading on OpenBSD.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Sebastian
>>
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