Your own repository with OpenBSD packages
Right now OpenBSD ports tree contains about 10042 ports according to ports.su. Resources of OpenBSD developers are limited and thus not all new ports are comitted to the official tree. It’s a reason why we have a big number of ports out of tree. See a list of some repositories with out-of-tree ports. Maintaining packages is not so simple when you have more than one OpenBSD machine: build a package on a machine with required CPU architechture, keep it somewhere, rebuild for each new release and so on.
For Ubuntu and Fedora there are convenient services available where you can get
your own package repository. Ubuntu has Launchpad
PPA and Fedora project has
COPR. You can put
there source packages which are under an open source license, e.g. development
snapshots of your software. Users then only need to add the repository address
with one command and can install the packages via apt-get
in case of
Ubuntu and yum
(or dnf
) in case of Fedora.
It would be nice to have similar service for OpenBSD. I’m even agree to pay a small amount of money for using such service :)