On Sun, Aug 9, 2026 at 15:38 vansid <ovi1@vansid.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 9, 2026 at 6:28 PM Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
> wrote:
>
> > I recommend setting 'SUDO=sudo -E' and "PORTS_PRIVSEP=Yes" in
> /etc/mk.conf
> > and configuring so that your user account can run things as _pbuild and
> > _pfetch without prompting, and as root with a password, e.g. like this
> in sudoers
> >
> > your_user ALL=(_pbuild) NOPASSWD: ALL, (_pfetch) NOPASSWD: ALL
> > your_user ALL=(ALL) SETENV: ALL
> >
> > then go to the dir for an individual port (e.g. cd /usr/ports/math/moo)
> > and as an exception to the normal rule, run "make fix-permissions" as
> > root.
>
> Thanks, I will definitely do that.  Sorry, just one more question...
>
> ZoneMinder has *a lot* of dependencies, all of which seem to resolve
> and work but only after a very long time of downloading and compiling
> all the related software.  When I was doing my initial testing (before
> I starting working on the actual OpenBSD ports tree process), I was
> able to install many of the dependencies with pre-compiled binaries
> from pkg_add which saved considerable time.  Is it possible to install
> dependent packages in this manner as part of the ports tree process,
> or must everything be installed from source according to each port's
> Makefile?


Yup, per bsd.port.mk(5), you can set `FETCH_PACKAGES=-Dsnap` in your
`/etc/mk.conf`, as well:

<https://man.openbsd.org/man5/bsd.port.mk.5#FETCH_PACKAGES>

That's assuming you're building on -current, which is suggested. If you
have another machine or VM you're testing for -stable on, you can set
`FETCH_PACKAGES=` (the default is 'No', hence setting it to an empty value,
in this case.)

Hope that helps,

Morgan

>