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| author | Miod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2008-08-06 18:22:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Miod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2008-08-06 18:22:14 +0000 |
| commit | cb458517fa4125b6460a7cc5c743a303b13fe8e9 (patch) | |
| tree | 4309a0a6558f2fc732380f8c9cbd7e17fcc9edfd | |
| parent | 00d7a2a7032f69fdd1d567f1bda582ee305ebc3a (diff) | |
Don't bother mentioning FreeBSD ports or NetBSD pkgsrc only on the
architectures FreeBSD or NetBSD runs on too: if a third-party application
is missing from the OpenBSD ports tree, it is worth looking at the
neighbours' regardless of the platform.
| -rw-r--r-- | distrib/notes/packages | 36 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/distrib/notes/packages b/distrib/notes/packages index eed01221c41..7685ab58a39 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/packages +++ b/distrib/notes/packages @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -dnl $OpenBSD: packages,v 1.42 2007/05/29 04:30:38 miod Exp $ +dnl $OpenBSD: packages,v 1.43 2008/08/06 18:22:13 miod Exp $ As complete as your OpenBSD system is, you may want to add any of several excellent third party software applications. There are several ways to do this. You can: @@ -106,34 +106,6 @@ Installing applications from the OpenBSD ports collection: You should also refer to the ports(7) manual page. dnl -dnl If this architecture is also supported under FreeBSD or NetBSD, define -dnl text that tells which ports collection you can try to tinker with. -dnl -define({:-PORTS-:}, -{:-ifelse( -MACHINE_ARCH,alpha,{:-FreeBSD - ports or NetBSD pkgsrc-:}, -MACHINE_ARCH,amd64,{:-FreeBSD - ports or NetBSD pkgsrc-:}, -MACHINE_ARCH,arm,{:-NetBSD - pkgsrc-:}, -dnl MACHINE_ARCH,hppa,{:-NetBSD -dnl pkgsrc-:}, -MACHINE_ARCH,i386,{:-FreeBSD - ports or NetBSD pkgsrc-:}, -MACHINE_ARCH,m68k,{:-NetBSD - pkgsrc-:}, -MACHINE_ARCH,powerpc,{:-NetBSD - pkgsrc-:}, -MACHINE_ARCH,sh,{:-NetBSD - pkgsrc-:}, -MACHINE_ARCH,sparc,{:-NetBSD - pkgsrc-:}, -MACHINE_ARCH,sparc64,{:-FreeBSD - ports or NetBSD pkgsrc-:}, -MACHINE_ARCH,vax,{:-NetBSD - pkgsrc-:})-:})dnl -dnl dnl If this architecture supports FreeBSD or NetBSD emulation by default, dnl define text that tells which binary packages you can try to run. dnl @@ -153,10 +125,8 @@ Installing other applications: If an OpenBSD package or port does not exist for an application you're pretty much on your own. The first thing to do is ask <ports@OpenBSD.org> if anyone is working on a port -- there may - be one in progress. - ifelse(PORTS,,,{:- - If no such port exists, you might want to tinker with the PORTS. --:})dnl + be one in progress. If no such port exists, you might want to + look at the FreeBSD ports or NetBSD pkgsrc for inspiration. ifelse(EMUL,,,{:- It is also quite possible that the EMUL binary packages, if they exist, will work for you. Note that you will need to |