Re: Using Ports

-------- Original Message --------
On 10/10/24 8:56 PM, Timo Myyrä <timo.myyra@bittivirhe.fi> 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: <None>
> 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