OpenBSD Mail Box: April 2026

First read https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Flavors and
https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Flavors

New packages are built for -current on most architectures, and for
-stable on currently just amd64 and i386.

Ask again if you have remaining questions after that.

On 2026-04-01, drango@wts.slmail.me <drango@wts.slmail.me> wrote:
> Would someone be so kind as to explain how package "progression" works?
> I am currently (happily) automating OpenBSD builds with sitesXX.tgz and autoinstall.
>
> I am trying to add Fish shell to this. (rsync the packages locally so I can build off net)
>
> I've seen in the package directory at the mirror site, version 4.1.1 (september 2025)
> /pub/OpenBSD/7.8/packages/amd64/
> fish-4.1.1.tgz
>
> (On a Linux box I have, its 4.2.0. And the current Fish release is 4.6.0)
>
> In the CVS repository
> https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/log/ports/shells/fish/main/pkg/PLIST,v?sort=File
> It shows:
> revision 1.9/ (Download) - annotate - Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:33:29 UTC by volker
> Changes since 1.8: +1 -0 (diff)
>
> shells/fish/main: Update to 4.6.0
>
> From Maintainer Florian Viehweger, thanks
>
>
> So my "guess" is that this is the "ports" version?
>
> Questions:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------How does an application get "promoted" to a new version in packages?
> If I want to run the latest 4.6.0, is it "safe" to use the version in ports?
> (assume I can just run make in the ports directory for it?)
> Are all packages in the mirror held at the original version from that release date?
> And its up to me the user to update with ports before the next OpenBSD release if I wish?
>
> Thanks, sorry for the questions. Just eager to learn more on this topic.
>
>
>
>

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Please keep replies on the mailing list.

You can use "PKG_CREATE_NO_CHECKS=warn" in mk.conf to turn the error into a warning, or you can make sure ports tree and installed packages are in sync (common scenarios are either you have updated packages but not cvs up'd the full tree, or a library was updated recently and hasn't made it into packages yet).

Sent from a phone, apologies for poor formatting.

On 31 March 2026 23:57:53 Marcus MERIGHI <mcmer-openbsd@tor.at> wrote:

Hello,

inspired by the call for testing for 2.0.0 on the mlmmj mailinglist I

tried to update our port from 1.4.5 to 1.8.0.

I hit the "Error: Libraries in packing-lists in the ports tree and

libraries from installed packages don't match" roadblock.

I'm on -current as of yesterday, updated (cvs update) my tree and my

packages (pkg_add -u) but still no joy.

Please use your clue stick on me :-)

Next in this mail (and attached):

- verbose change notes

- the changes I made to the port as diff -u

Marcus

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The one and only patch could be removed:

patch-Makefile_in

-@WANT_TESTS_TRUE@ @ATF_LIBS@ -lrt

+@WANT_TESTS_TRUE@ @ATF_LIBS@

(the ./patches directory could be removed.)

Change log:

https://codeberg.org/mlmmj/mlmmj/releases

1.7.1 -> 1.8.0

o New 'subrelease' feature: on lists with 'subonlypost', non-subscribers

can simultaneously subscribe and release their denied post by replying

to a single address. Three variants are provided: subrelease (normal

subscription), digestsubrelease, and nomailsubrelease.

o Remove 'selfmoderate' feature, superseded by 'subrelease'.

o Fix thread grouping in digest.

o Fix garbage output in send_digest.

o Properly close SMTP connection on EHLO failure.

o Improve error handling in send_mail.

o Clean up queue file on second do_all_the_voodoo_here failure.

o Use buffered I/O where possible for better performance.

o Update exim4 configuration hints for exim4 >= 4.94.

o Many new unit tests.

1.7.0 -> 1.7.1

o Fix build with older GCC.

o Fix a crash when processing email from list+owner.

o Fix some potentials mails loss in case a failure of delivery.

o Many small leak (memory and fd) fixes which are mainly cosmetic considering

the process would have release at exit time anyway.

1.6.0 -> 1.7.0

New 'autosubscribe' feature: on moderated mailing list autosubscribe as

"nomail" when if a moderator approves a mail

New 'selfmoderate' feature: send the moderation email to the "From" address

for validation

Fix 'nonomailsub' support

Plenty of memory leaks

Fix lock issue

1.5.2 -> 1.6.0

Remove blanks in customheaders prefix and skip empty lines

$bouncenumbers$ in probe are now expended to number, messageid when

possible

customheaeders allow now substitution of $posteraddr$ (Erwan Mas)

Fix portability issue on Hurd (Erwan Mas)

1.5.1 -> 1.5.2

Plenty of portability fixes

1.5.0 -> 1.5.1

Fix tests on system with a running smtp server on port 25

Fix portability issue on arm64

Fix tests where some struct were not initialised properly

1.4.7 -> 1.5.0

Add option to copy From: to Reply-To: (Graham Leggett)

remove contrib/pymime

remove contrib/foot_filter

granular access rejection message

fix duplicated bounce recording

Remove support for all deprecated syntax in templates

1.4.6 -> 1.4.7

fix duplicate queued moderation notification email

fix build on macOS

1.4.5 -> 1.4.6

mlmmj-make-ml: fix on OpenBSD

Fix another regression regarding RFC 5321

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Index: Makefile

===================================================================

RCS file: /cvs/ports/mail/mlmmj/Makefile,v

retrieving revision 1.28

diff -u -p -u -r1.28 Makefile

--- Makefile 22 May 2024 22:29:29 -0000 1.28

+++ Makefile 31 Mar 2026 10:41:54 -0000

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@

COMMENT= mailing list manager

-V= 1.4.5

+V= 1.8.0

DISTNAME= mlmmj-${V}

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--enable-receive-strip=y

CONFIGURE_ENV= CPPFLAGS="-I${WRKSRC}/include -I${LOCALBASE}/include" \

LDFLAGS="-L${LOCALBASE}/lib -liconv"

-DOCS= README* TUNABLES

+DOCS= README* TUNABLES.md

post-install:

${INSTALL_DATA_DIR} ${PREFIX}/share/doc/mlmmj

Index: distinfo

===================================================================

RCS file: /cvs/ports/mail/mlmmj/distinfo,v

retrieving revision 1.13

diff -u -p -u -r1.13 distinfo

--- distinfo 3 May 2024 13:57:20 -0000 1.13

+++ distinfo 31 Mar 2026 10:41:54 -0000

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@

-SHA256 (mlmmj-1.4.5.tar.gz) = UluUL2mGZmdubon/3KbdvDBlSsNp3ux/z27RBVyH6Aw=

-SIZE (mlmmj-1.4.5.tar.gz) = 465064

+SHA256 (mlmmj-1.8.0.tar.gz) = 96cc377e66770659392a4bb02ec6c7b68864f9b5279f33a13c0590a2bef2aa5d

+SIZE (mlmmj-1.8.0.tar.gz) = 449828

Index: pkg/PLIST

===================================================================

RCS file: /cvs/ports/mail/mlmmj/pkg/PLIST,v

retrieving revision 1.12

diff -u -p -u -r1.12 PLIST

--- pkg/PLIST 3 May 2024 13:57:20 -0000 1.12

+++ pkg/PLIST 31 Mar 2026 10:41:54 -0000

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ share/doc/mlmmj/README.qmail

share/doc/mlmmj/README.receive-strip

share/doc/mlmmj/README.security

share/doc/mlmmj/README.sendmail

-share/doc/mlmmj/TUNABLES

+share/doc/mlmmj/TUNABLES.md

share/mlmmj/

share/mlmmj/text.skel/

share/mlmmj/text.skel/ast/

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OpenBSD Mail Box

Wednesday, April 01, 2026

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