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From:
Leah Rowe <info@minifree.org>
Subject:
Re: remove sysutils/coreboot-utils
To:
Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org>, ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date:
Thu, 3 Sep 2026 17:09:50 +0100

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can you send me the work that you did? the porting to openbnd i mean, of 
coreboot (i assume build tools and such)

might be useful to me as i plan to port lbmk (libreboot build system) to 
openbsd, and of course coreboot is a component of it.


Am 03.09.26 um 00:31 schrieb Klemens Nanni:
> 30.03.2026 00:02, Klemens Nanni пишет:
>> I imported this in 2020 when using coreboot and trying to build and work
>> with it on OpenBSD.  I never managed to fix all the things or get parts
>> committed upstream.
>>
>> This port was helpful to deal with existing images (on other machines)
>> without having to set up and build tools first.
>>
>> In 2022 I stopped doing that and dropped maintainer, in 2023 there was
>> one update from a user;  since then it is just collecting dust, lacking
>> behind in updates.
>>
>> Is anyone still using this and would like to take care of it?
>>
>> Otherwise "no benefit to being packaged" seems more apt these days.
>>
>> Feedback? OK?
> Ping.
>
> Noone spoke up and I still think this isn't worth the build time anymore.
>
> Index: Makefile
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/ports/devel/quirks/Makefile,v
> diff -u -p -r1.1811 Makefile
> --- Makefile	28 Aug 2026 11:19:10 -0000	1.1811
> +++ Makefile	2 Sep 2026 23:26:58 -0000
> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ CATEGORIES =	devel databases
>   DISTFILES =
>   
>   # API.rev
> -PKGNAME =	quirks-7.218
> +PKGNAME =	quirks-7.219
>   PKG_ARCH =	*
>   MAINTAINER =	Marc Espie <espie@openbsd.org>
>   
> Index: files/Quirks.pm
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/ports/devel/quirks/files/Quirks.pm,v
> diff -u -p -r1.1825 Quirks.pm
> --- files/Quirks.pm	28 Aug 2026 11:19:10 -0000	1.1825
> +++ files/Quirks.pm	2 Sep 2026 23:27:29 -0000
> @@ -630,6 +630,7 @@ setup_obsolete_reason(
>   	9 => 'libpgmath',
>   	3 => 'p5-Data-Entropy',
>   	3 => 'tmate',
> +	1 => 'coreboot-utils',
>   );
>   # beware, if ports with an RDEP on Python 3 are removed, they need to be listed
>   # as @conflict/pkgpath in lang/python/3 and not here, otherwise an update from a

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