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Read-only git conversion of OpenBSD's CVS ports repository. This only includes the main branch; use CVS for -stable or release branches. Send any diffs to the port's maintainer and/or ports@ mailing list.

17 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 1 story, 16 comments · first 2018-10-12 · latest 2026-10-19

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  1. …still uses CVS. I found this GitHub mirror of their ports repo which has the new wine port: https://github.com/openbsd/ports/tree/master/emulators/wine That has a static import from 13 hours ago. Anyone know if this wine port has its own…
    comment by simonw · 2026-10-19 · in Wine ported to OpenBSD
  2. …work has even been accepted upstream. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=145211683609002&w=2 https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/www/chromium/pa... https://github.com/openbsd/ports/tree/master/www/chromium/fi...
    comment by brynet · 2026-09-20 · in Software sandboxing: The basics (2025)
  3. …packages managers. Something like Python’s numpy or lib curl, get sliced into atomic portions. [0]: https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/devel/jujutsu/c... [1]: https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/devel/jujutsu/d...
    comment by skydhash · 2026-05-10 · in Debian must ship reproducible packages
  4. …OpenBSD docs remind me, otherwise I wouldn't remember: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade77.html https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/databases/postg...
    comment by Arch-TK · 2025-10-06 · in Ask HN: Any advice on pivoting out of VC-backed tech?
  5. …patch, ~8 years later, see https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sthen/nginx_chroot_patch/a... and https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/www/nginx/Makef...
    comment by brynet · 2023-12-29 · in BCHS software stack: BSD, C, httpd, SQLite
  6. …A few random examples: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/blob/c8494dff7b6b9a996866edaf8c... https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/www/mozilla-fir... https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/www/mozilla-fir... To get the best…
    comment by 5e92cb50239222b · 2023-07-11 · in Firejail: Light, featureful and zero-dependency security sandbox for Linux
  7. > https://github.com/openbsd/ports/commit/bf33ea5f3ff390d8cde3... Now, this is surprising. I randomly clicked on that link and I immediately see that the code and the patch has a bug. It only checks the first 8 characters: - if (gr != NULL…
    comment by kouteiheika · 2023-06-20 · in OpenBSD: Shutdown/reboot now require membership of group _shutdown
  8. Oh, the irony of linking to GitHub. https://github.com/openbsd/ports/commit/bf33ea5f3ff390d8cde3... https://github.com/openbsd/ports/commit/469b0a4b0a1152576d93...
    comment by 5e92cb50239222b · 2023-06-20 · in OpenBSD: Shutdown/reboot now require membership of group _shutdown
  9. …You're redirected to the package README with special instructions on how to setup and upgrade: https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/databases/postg... Et voilà, everything is explained. On debian, if I am not careful, I'll do an…
    comment by gjadi · 2022-06-23 · in How I would sell OpenBSD as a salesperson
  10. …go through to make sure all the (third-party) ports/packages: * https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/ports/ * https://github.com/openbsd/ports do not break. So they're create patches for the software and and submit them upstream.
    comment by throw0101a · 2022-02-05 · in Handling argc==0 in the Linux kernel
  11. …will be available to those who desire to use it: * https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/ports/net/isc-dhcp/ * https://github.com/openbsd/ports/tree/master/net/isc-dhcp The use or non-use of of either of these program will also not effect device…
    comment by throw0101a · 2021-07-17 · in dhcpleased(8) and resolvd(8) enabled in base, replacing dhclient(8)
  12. …having access to your ssh keys. https://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan2019-unveil/mgp00022.ht... https://github.com/openbsd/ports/tree/master/www/chromium/fi...
    comment by notaplumber · 2020-09-09 · in The Native File System API allows web apps to save directly to files
  13. …the core system and pkgs would have latest clang/llvm? P.S. It seems llvm on pkgs is still 8.0.x https://github.com/openbsd/ports/tree/master/devel/llvm
    comment by sidkshatriya · 2020-06-17 · in FreeBSD 11.4
  14. …they have to maintain (and spend hours and hours rebasing every upgrade). Wow, you're not kidding. https://github.com/openbsd/ports/tree/master/www/chromium/pa... is positively scary .
    comment by exikyut · 2020-06-11 · in Haiku R1/beta2 has been released
  15. …to download an upstream release tarball, apply some patches and then build it, right? (Like https://github.com/openbsd/ports/tree/master/lang/erlang/21 but for v8 instead) I'm really confused how managing those patches is harder in git vs…
    comment by toast0 · 2019-05-29 · in What are the differences between OpenBSD and Linux?
  16. …etc. For example, the GPU and plugin processes can only act on file descriptors received this way: https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/www/chromium/pa... But this alone doesn't protect this "bridge" process itself from accessing…
    comment by brynet · 2018-10-12 · in OpenBSD's unveil()