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From:
Lydia Sobot <chilledfrogs@disroot.org>
Subject:
Re: New ZoneMinder Port
To:
vansid <ovi1@vansid.org>
Cc:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:11:34 +0200

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On August 8, 2026 23:06:18 GMT+02:00, vansid <ovi1@vansid.org> wrote:
>Hi, folks.  I'm working on my first OpenBSD port of the video
>surveillance project called ZoneMinder and I've run into a problem.
>Coming from the Linux world, I have very little OpenBSD experience so
>this is all a bit of a mystery to me and I could use some help.
Welcome :)

>I've created the Makefile and gotten the makesum, configure, and build
>steps to work, but when I run 'doas make install' I get the following
>error.  Any ideas?
1) don't execute ports Makefiles as root, it'll try to elevate privileges as required (also you can set doas as your privilege escalation handler, look in mk.conf(5) and search for SUDO)
2) looks like you forgot make update-plist