On 2025-09-24 01:43:56, "deichert () placebonol ! com" wrote: "I've been running OpenBSD for almost 30 years and it amazes me someone is c= omplaining about building a package from ports=2E What is the big deal?"
it might be because you've run openbsd for *30 YEARS*. i was on the IRC channel for years in the past and people asked about help with ports all the time. On 2025-09-23 13:00:48, Carson Chittom wrote: "As a general observation, asking open-ended questions in a tone implying that somebody else owes you the work *you* want done is unlikely to bear fruit." On 2025-09-24 05:22:46, Janne Johansson wrote: "No, you should have refrained from saying "someone else needs to do work for me"" "and it doesn't help if you start with "I am very humbly asking someone else to do a lot of work for me" either, though it is nicer, but it is still demanding that others work for you, and that is what is triggers the response." ...... his first two mails *LITERALLY* ask "how can i help". On 2025-09-22 at 22:32:12, Terry Cocksworth wrote: "In fact, it doesn't even exist for any platform but 64- and 32-bit x86. Tonnes of critical updates - for nginx, PHP, MariaDB, Firefox, and much more - are not being provided for Arm64. To me, with my perhaps na=EFve impression of Arm64 being overwhelmingly more popular than i386 these days, this is absolutely unbelievable." to summarize the last decade the situation with the repo packaging is that the protocol is total dogshit (there's no protocol) *BUT* it's the same for all the other archs except x86, unspoken rule that x86 is the *ONLY* arch that any and all users no matter their technical skill can trust openbsd with and your options are to accept the security problems if your system is on the internet or just go to manual or jump to x86. reading the lists for years taught me butting heads here gets nobody nowhere.
