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.

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.