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* Paulo Aukar writes:
> A few notes about pkgsrc on OpenBSD 3.6:
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> - many key packages (i. e. packages supporting a lot of other dependent=
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> packages, such as pango, ghostscript-gnu and teTeX) didn't complete their=
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> compilation and installation process; of course each one with its particu=
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> work.log) blocking the installation of many important applications;

I got pango working. I even had gtk2.

> - perl already exists at native basic install of OpenBSD system but pkgsr=
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> installs its own version;
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That's not a problem, I think.

> It seems to be necessary a set of changes in OpenBSD to fit pkgsrc and at=
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> same time a set of changes at pkgsrc in order to match OpenBSD. Simply=20
> boostraping pkgsrc seems not to be enough to produce a working system. Th=
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> above mentioned hipothetical schedule requires probably a lot of skilful =
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> but would produce a new distribution of OpenBSD.

I'd love to see Pkgsrc prosper on OpenBSD. Around end of last year, I at le=
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got about the following applications built on OpenBSD 3.6 (maybe one or two=
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them still failed; can't remember):

net/djbdns
www/squid
net/ucspi-tcp
print/cups
net/samba
net/ddclient
net/dynipclient
net/chrony
security/dropbear
net/wget
mail/mutt
devel/subversion
editors/vim
sysutils/cdrecord
sysutils/coreutils
www/links
www/elinks

While that's enough for a small server (what I needed at that time), it is =
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enough for the desktop. On my way to a desktop distribution, I got stuck at=
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Firefox-gtk2 and the mkfontdir problem (posted to this list). The latter is=
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that serious, as you can use the fonts brought with OpenBSD. And about Fire=
fox:=20
it even worked partially when run from the working directory (there were ju=
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some icons missing). So I guess it's merely a makefile problem that Firefox=
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didn't install, but I couldn't figure out how to solve it.

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Lasse Kliemann
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