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brynet on April 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenBSD ports are more than just a Makefile

Marc Espie is who developed the package tools, and has given talks about it. Ted Unangst created signify, which is the basis for the package signing capabilities.

You could also check the pkg_add(8), signify(1) and ports(7)/packages(7) man pages.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/...

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man1/...

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man7/...

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man7/...

lcd047 on April 12, 2015 [–]

Also relevant:

* packages vs. ports[0]

* porter's handbook[1]

[0]: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html

[1]: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/index.html

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