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Old 25th October 2011
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Originally Posted by amrogers3 View Post
I can't seem to be able to determine what applications are included in the ports list.
As a newcomer to OpenBSD, you will save yourself significant time & aggravation to take the time now to familiarize yourself with the entire contents of the official FAQ:

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html

In particular, packages & ports are covered in Section 15.

The ports collection consists of infrastructural makefiles which are used to build third-party applications. Unless there are specific reasons to compile applications, it is far simpler (& advocated by the project...) to use packages which are the results of compiling ports. In fact, there is no difference between the pre-compiled packages available on project mirror sites & the packages which can be compiled locally.
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...could I use ports to install Pulled Pork which is not included in the default package list?
No. Section 15 discusses ways in which the ports tree can be searched. There is also a third-party Website which encapsulates the most recent changes to the ports collection:

http://openports.se/

Be aware that this site focuses on recent changes made to the head of the CVS tree which constituents OpenBSD's -current flavor. Not all recent changes will be available to users of -release or -stable. If you are unfamiliar with OpenBSD's flavors, study Section 5.1 of the FAQ.

As for your questions about Pulled Pork, my suggestion would be to install the available package first to see if this application is already available. If not, contact the maintainer for snort to find out if there is any plans to port this add-on.
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