On 19/11/2011, at 1:46 PM, John Tate wrote:

> Misc/Ports,
> 
> gkrellm has an OpenBSD specific shortcoming. Depending on what USB
> drives are plugged in, my softraid could be anywhere between sd2-sd6.
> gkrellm needs to be reconfigured every time. The OpenBSD port of
> gkrellm could instead support the uuids, and always display my two
> physical AHCI drives and the softraid. It's a little annoying having
> to configure gkrellm after every different boot scenario.
> 
> Also, where do I get started on learning to make ports? I don't
> necessarily mean contribute but where are the docs for a wannabe
> contributor?
> 


OpenBSD is (rightly) famed for the man pages:

man ports

Which also links you to the excellent FAQs.

openports.se is a very useful resource and I'm glad it is there - but my 
understanding is that it is not an "official" part of the project.

You might also want to read this ... http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html

HTH

> John
> 
> Also this leads nowhere, so I couldn't find gkrellm's maintainer:
> http://openports.se/sysutils/gkrellm
> 
> -- 
> www.johntate.org
> 

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