From: Andrew Kloet <andrew@kloet.net>
Subject: Re: [NEW] net/arti
To: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:51:33 -0800

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