On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:14:06 +0200 Hannah Schroeter <han...@pond.sub.org> wrote: >On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 01:47:39AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: >>[...] > >> If you're running NetBSD or OpenBSD, you may be able to do something >>similar, but I'm not familiar with their methods. (Perhaps Hannah could >>give an OpenBSD example here, please?) > >For OpenBSD, the recommended way is using the pre-built packages. If you >are on a release, use the release packages from CD or the release >directories on the ftp mirrors. If you are on -current (snapshots or own >build, usually after starting from a snapshot), you use packages from >the associated package snapshot directory. > >The packages can be built from the ports collection. You get the ports >collection from CD (for release) or from ftp (for release) or via any of >the cvs-related access methods (for release/stable, or for -current). >Match the ports "branch" to what you run as base system, of course. >release/stable ports for a release/stable base system, -current ports >for a snapshot/-current base system. > >For ports, you build the package by entering the appropriate directory >(e.g. /usr/ports/net/tor) and saying make package. The package is built >in /usr/ports/packages/<architecture>/all/tor-<version-string>.tgz. >You can also say "make install", which is make package + pkg_add for the >package so generated. Dito for polipo or privoxy (both of which are >provided as package and port). The ports infrastructure might need >ftp/http access to retrieve the source distributions of the original >software, but you may retrieve the appropriate files manually and put >them into /usr/ports/distfiles/ if automatic fetching fails. (Try make >fetch-list in /usr/ports/... to get the list of files the port would try >to fetch). > Thanks, Hannah. It appears to be basically identical to the way it works in FreeBSD, although I don't think the FreeBSD ports team normally makes specific recommendations favoring a particular package over its port or vice-versa with the possible exception of OpenOffice.org. :-) If there's a NetBSD person on the list, perhaps he/she could chime in here with directions for installing privoxy. Likewise for a Solaris person or HP-UX person. (The last time I used HP-UX, there was no standard procedure other than to download source, compile, and so on.)
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