Tree of OpenBSD ports that have been 'back ported' to work with the current stable release of OpenBSD.
The main goal is to bridge the gap between ports and versions of ports that only exist in the -current ports tree.
OpenBSD OFFERS NO SUPPORT FOR THIS TREE, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
One way to use this tree is to clone it into your /usr/ports/ directory and
adjust PORTSDIR_PATH accordingly in /etc/mk.conf:
PORTSDIR_PATH=${PORTSDIR}:$(PORTSDIR)/openbsd-backports:${PORTSDIR}/mystuff
In the above example, a port with version 1 in cvs, version 2 in openbsd-backports. Then, the version in cvs will be picked up before the version in openbsd-backports. This is important if you are building packages using dpb. The order of PORTSDIR_PATH is important.
To prevent "merge commits" from showing up in git log, it's recommended to either update your tree with:
git fetch && git rebase origin
or set the following option in .git/config in your local openbsd-backports repo
(see git-config(1) on branch.<name>.rebase and branch.autosetuprebase):
git config branch.master.rebase true
Users of py-hg-git may update the tree issuing:
hg pull --rebase
Please let me know if you need write access to this repository. But please stick the workflow outlined in this document as well the pointers in https://openbsd.org/porting.html