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| author | Miod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2003-05-05 20:15:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Miod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2003-05-05 20:15:38 +0000 |
| commit | f2793530944ca18720352b153012a35b3ae04ed8 (patch) | |
| tree | 9553a5ec67508d82691bad5e9bd977778cc480f9 | |
| parent | c3b2241393ec4dbe5e5a691a693379d0807fd26c (diff) | |
When talking about third-party application and the ports system, only reference
tinkering {Free,Net}BSD and/or even running their packages under compatibility
mode, if there is actually a port of these systems to the current architecture.
For example, it does not make sense to mention the FreeBSD ports collection
on an m68k system...
Suggested by David Coomber.
| -rw-r--r-- | distrib/notes/packages | 44 |
1 files changed, 39 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/distrib/notes/packages b/distrib/notes/packages index 219065e353d..c23622b6fa8 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/packages +++ b/distrib/notes/packages @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -dnl $OpenBSD: packages,v 1.28 2003/03/25 19:01:37 pvalchev Exp $ +dnl $OpenBSD: packages,v 1.29 2003/05/05 20:15:37 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: @@ -1109,15 +1109,49 @@ 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 package collection-:}, +MACHINE_ARCH,hppa,{:-NetBSD + package collection-:}, +MACHINE_ARCH,i386,{:-FreeBSD + ports or NetBSD package collection-:}, +MACHINE_ARCH,m68k,{:-NetBSD + package collection-:}, +MACHINE_ARCH,powerpc,{:-NetBSD + package collection-:}, +MACHINE_ARCH,sparc,{:-NetBSD + package collection-:}, +MACHINE_ARCH,sparc64,{:-FreeBSD + ports or NetBSD package collection-:}, +MACHINE_ARCH,vax,{:-NetBSD + package collection-:})-:})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 +define({:-EMUL-:}, +{:-ifelse( +MACHINE_ARCH,alpha,{:-NetBSD-:}, +MACHINE_ARCH,i386,{:-FreeBSD-:})-:})dnl +dnl 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. If no luck there you may try the FreeBSD - ports or NetBSD package collection. If you are on an i386 based - machine it is quite possible that the FreeBSD port, if one exists, - will work for you. + be one in progress. + + ifelse(PORTS,,,{:-If no such port exists, you might want to tinker with the PORTS. +-:})dnl + ifelse(EMUL,,,{:-It is also quite possible that the EMUL binary packages, + if they exist, will work for you. +-:})dnl If you can't find an existing port try to make your own and feed it back to OpenBSD. That's how our ports collection grows. |