From: Andrew Kloet <andrew@kloet.net>
Subject: Re: [NEW] net/arti
To: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:41:01 -0800

On 2/17/26 18:51, Andrew Kloet wrote:
> On 2/13/26 15:20, David Uhden Collado wrote:
>>
>>> Here is a port for net/arti 2.0.0
>>>
>>> Arti is a complete rewrite of the C Tor codebase, and it is currently
>>> under active development. It is written in Rust, and it is designed to
>>> be modular, reusable, and easy to audit.
>>>
>>> There was previous effort to get a port made for Arti 1.0.0 in 2022 that
>>> was dropped:
>>> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=166222034813901&w=2
>>>
>>> OK?
>>
>> The port does not have an RC script, which is essential for this 
>> software, nor does it install the sample configuration file (arti- 
>> example-config.toml) located in the root of the arti create. I also 
>> think that if arti is added to the ports tree, a flavor should be 
>> added to the Tor browser so that arti can be used instead of tor as a 
>> runtime dependency.
>>
> This is an update of my original patch. It includes an rc.d script,
> default configs, and a dedicated user. However there are some things to
> note that are not super ideal, and are a problem of the current state of
> the upstream arti daemon: when no config is provided, arti defaults to
> scanning paths such as.
> 
> ${HOME}/.local/share/arti/state
> 
> These default search paths can be overridden by environment variables
> like $ARTI_LOCAL_DATA. But as far as I'm aware it is bad practice to set
> these in login.conf.
> 
> I instead opted to patch the default `arti.toml` config to point to the
> directories it needs in the /var/arti folder that I create in the port.
> Please let me know if there is a nicer/more standard way to go about
> this.
> 
> Also, I'd like to request to reserve UID/GID 904 for the _arti user
> 
> OK?
> 
> Andrew
Sorry, I forgot to run portcheck. Also, I added the doc/ folder from
the build to the packing list.

Andrew