From: Joe B Subject: Re: Using Ports To: "timo.myyra@bittivirhe.fi" Cc: "ports@openbsd.org" Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 04:26:40 +0000 -------- Original Message -------- On 10/10/24 8:56 PM, Timo Myyrä wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10 2024, Joe B wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I just installed openbsd and I'm happy.. coming from FreeBSD and lots of stuff are different. > > > > I like ports to have options between binary and source. > > > > In freebsd you could make showconfig to see whats configured by default. you could do make config to change the default options then make install clean.. > > > > Also i would do this > > > > - make config (change stuff) > > - export BATCH=y > > - make install clean and everything was fine > > > > Ports on openbsd are so different. > > > > What do you recommend me do ? i would like to add ssl put stuff in or > > whatever. I was looking at https://man.openbsd.org/ports and > > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/ports.html but i'm confused > > > > Thanks > > > > Joe > > OpenBSD does not really encourage to tinker with ports that much. > Compiling from the ports is left for developers of the ports tree. Users > of the OpenBSD should be using the binary packages. The packages are > compiled most common options enabled but some packages provide few > different "flavors". For example if you install emacs with pkg_add it > will poll which flavor you want: > > $ doas pkg_add emacs > quirks-7.53 signed on 2024-10-09T20:18:24Z > quirks-7.50->7.53: ok > Ambiguous: choose package for emacs > a 0: > 1: emacs-29.4p0-gtk2 > 2: emacs-29.4p0-gtk3 > 3: emacs-29.4p0-no_x11 Thanks for the reply.. Will do. Love openBSD so far and learning more daily. The FAQ is like the best thing ever Joe