Openbsd Support

Michael Nottebrock michaelnottebrock at gmx.net
Tue Dec 21 17:06:49 GMT 2004


On Tuesday, 21. December 2004 16:22, Dave Feustel wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 December 2004 08:55 am, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 21. December 2004 14:40, Dave Feustel wrote:
> > > I have been trying to port KDE to openbsd so that openbsd users
> > > can always run with the latest release, but KDE is a very large project
> > > to attempt on my 800 Mhz computer. Is there any chance of getting
> > >  kde.org to officially support an openbsd distribution of kde releases?
> >
> > There is a KDE port in openbsd ports, isn't there? Looking at CVS, it's
> > at 3.3.2, too.
>
> I have kde 3.2.3 software installed (from Openbsd 3.6 package collection)
> on my 3.6 (CDrom release) system.
>
> You may be looking at -current or -stable.
> I know that the -current 
> versions cannot be installed on  cdrom-released version of openbsd.

Perhaps not the binary packages (it depends how much -current has departed 
from the last release in terms of binary compatibility), but you should 
always be able to build your own packages from the main branch of ports.

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