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Old 12th March 2012
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No, sparky.

The ports tree contains infrastructure for building ports, not the ports' source code, and each leaf of the tree contains a series of OpenBSD-specific files/folders specific to that port, such as a Makefile, a distinfo file, and packing lists and installation messages in pkg/*, as well as optional patches/* or files/* when needed for OpenBSD uniquely.

Your choice with custom applications is to either:
  • build them outside the ports system entirely
  • "port" them.
The latter is what the porter's guide you were looking at is for.

Please read FAQ 15's sections on ports very carefully.

Last edited by jggimi; 12th March 2012 at 06:54 PM. Reason: typo, clarity
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