From: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject: Re: Retire erlang/26 for erlang/29
To: Volker Schlecht <openbsd-ports@schlecht.dev>
Cc: Daniel Jakots <danj@chown.me>, ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:20:39 +0100

On 2026/09/17 07:52, Volker Schlecht wrote:
> On 2026-09-16 22:22, Daniel Jakots wrote:
> > Index: user.list
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/ports/infrastructure/db/user.list,v
> > diff -u -p -r1.491 user.list
> > --- user.list	17 Sep 2026 01:29:08 -0000	1.491
> > +++ user.list	17 Sep 2026 01:33:27 -0000
> > @@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ id  user		group		port
> > 885 _mycorrhiza		_mycorrhiza	www/mycorrhiza
> > 886 _eduvpn		_eduvpn		net/eduvpn
> > 887 _endlessh		_endlessh	net/endlessh
> > -888 _epmd		_epmd		lang/erlang/26
> > +888 _epmd		_epmd		lang/erlang/{27,28,29}
> > 889 _gromox		_gromox		mail/grommunio/gromox
> > 890 _grommunio		_grommunio	mail/grommunio/admin-api
> > 891 _kiwix-serve	_kiwix-serve	www/kiwix/kiwix-tools
> > 
> > ok?
> 
> Thanks for pointing it out! Given that _epmd will likely be needed for 30, 31...
> I think a simple "lang/erlang" would be even better.

should be fine, it works for asterisk.

> But if that's not an option, ok volker@