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Originally Posted by amrogers3
I can't seem to be able to determine what applications are included in the ports list.
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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?
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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.