Re: fresh install of OpenBSD 5.4 on an old Sparc server fails to install wget

On 2014/02/09 02:46, dev wrote:
> # pkg_add -v wget
> wget-1.14p0:libiconv-1.14p0: ok
> wget-1.14p0:gettext-0.18.2p3: ok
> wget-1.14p0:libidn-1.27: ok
> wget-1.14p0:pcre-8.33: ok
> wget-1.14p0: ok
> Weird subject line in /usr/local/man/cat3/pcre16.0:
>  #include <pcre.h>
> Weird subject line in /usr/local/man/cat3/pcre32.0:
>  #include <pcre.h>
> Weird subject line in /usr/local/man/cat3/pcreapi.0:
>  #include <pcre.h>
> No subject found in /usr/local/man/cat3/pcredemo.0
> 
> A few odd messages. hrmmm ... okay.

Those come from makewhatis(8) (or to be more exact, the perl module
behind makewhatis which is called directly by pkg_add) - they're
unsightly but can be ignored. They are actually hidden in -current
unless you use pkg_add -vv (this is a very recent change, it
pre-dated your email by a couple of hours ;)

Side-note, pcredemo(3) is a *very* strange man page!

> No SSL or Zlib bits either.
> That looks to be correct.  I am surprised that libssl and some crypto
> libs are not required but then again, this is OpenBSD and not Solaris
> so I guess I should expect to see some new things.

There's a split between programs/libraries which are part of the base
system, and those which come from packages. libssl, libz etc. are part
of the base system and live in /usr/lib, whereas libiconv, libintl etc.
are part of packages which live (mostly) in /usr/local/lib.

> Very cool .. however I don't know what it installed into /usr/local but

"pkg_info -f wget" shows the packing list for wget, which includes all
the files associated with that package (and various annotations; sha hashes,
file sizes, library dependencies, etc).

> I guess I can learn to live with that being a "do not touch" vendor
> area as opposed to a "user may modify" area.

It's simpler that way - might be better to use a different base location
if there are things you need to install yourself from source - less chance
of accidentally interfering with files from packages that way. If you
use pkg_check(8) you'll find it complains about files under /usr/local
which aren't associated with a package.