Subject: Re: How to use on OpenBSD? (has Perl-5.8.8 in OBSD base)
To: The masked-coder known as Randux <randux@Safe-mail.net>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 03/13/2007 23:59:40
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:41:48 +0200
"The masked-coder known as Randux" <randux@Safe-mail.net> wrote:
>
> Whilst pkgsrc works quite well for me on NetBSD (don't really recall
> any major problems at all) it doesn't seem to be working very well on
> OpenBSD 4.0. I've run into three broken packages already tonight, one
> I was able to run down on the list archives, it's been repeatedly
> broken/fixed/broken/fixed since 2004 (gpgme) and now firefox2 and
> sylpheed-claws (my main reasons for using pkgsrc on OpenBSD) have
> just crashed.
I'll be committing a new package for claws-mail within the next few
days.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb