STABLE ports tree has returned..

[BSDfan666]

It appears as if William Yodlowsky(william@) has been silently committing updates to OPENBSD_4_5.

Here is a list of ports that have received updates, or so I've found.

• audio/libsndfile
• databases/mysql
• devel/glib2
• graphics/lcms
• graphics/png
• graphics/pngcrush
• graphics/xfig
• lang/ruby
• mail/enigmail + mail/enigmail-seamonkey
• mail/mozilla-thunderbird + mail/thunderbird-i18n
• net/ejabberd
• net/ntp
• print/cups
• security/cyrus-sasl2
• www/apache-httpd
• www/mod_jk
• www/mozilla-firefox + www/firefox-i18n
• www/phpmyadmin
• www/ruby-sinatra
• www/seamonkey

No binary packages are available yet, but you can most definitely build your own.

Define CVSROOT first, export with bourne shells.. env with csh shells.
$ cd /usr/ports; sudo cvs up -r OPENBSD_4_5 -Pd

I consider this good news.

[Oko]

There is whole underground movement of people who run stable ports. The most successful unofficial attempt to resurrect is probably

http://openbsd.rutgers.edu/

Also if you following ports@openbsd you will see that sometimes people post ports which will compile on
stable but never get committed.

[BSDfan666]

Looks like he's still committing changes, undeadly.org is now summarizing the changes in -STABLE.

I do hope that things start getting back to how they were in the old days, when you could occasionally use pkg_add to fetch critical updates with relative ease.