Software

Binary Patches for OpenBSD 4.6

To track stable, you don’t necessarily need to work with cvs snapshots. Ideally, you’d fetch all relevant patches for your architecture and OpenBSD version from here and cobble together those patches with binpatch

This also requires that you fetch architecture-independant src.tar.gz and sys.tar.gz from here, and all installation-set tarballs from here.

From the project description file, the tree structure is then:

  • binpatch-1.1.0/

  • Makefile

  • bsd.binpatch.mk

  • distfiles/

    • i386/
    • src.tar.gz
    • sys.tar.gz

  • packages/

  • patches/

    • common/
    • i386/

  • pkg/

    • (e.g. PLIST-i386-001)

  • work-binpatch-4.6/

    • fake/
    • obj/
    • src/

The following changes to Makefile were made to suit patches for OpenBSD 4.6:

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### Last Updated: June 3rd 2010

# List of patches for all architectures
PATCH_COMMON=001_bind 003_getsockopt 004_openssl 005_ptrace 006_openssl 007_ftpd 008_kerberos 009_mpi 010_openssl 011_pfsync 012_trunklacp
# List of patches for i386 only
PATCH_I386=002_xmm
#...
002_xmm: _kernel
003_getsockopt: _kernel
005_ptrace: _kernel
009_mpi: _kernel
011_pfsync: _kernel
012_trunklacp: _kernel

001_bind:
        cd ${WRKSRC}/usr.sbin/bind && \
        (${_obj_wrp}; ${_depend_wrp}; ${_build_wrp})

004_openssl:
        cd ${WRKSRC}/lib/libssl && \
        (${_obj}; ${_depend}; ${_includes}; ${_build}) && \
        cd ${WRKSRC}/sbin && \
        (${_obj}; ${_depend}; ${_build})

006_openssl:
        cd ${WRKSRC}/lib/libssl && \
        (${_obj}; ${_depend}; ${_includes}; ${_build}) && \
        cd ${WRKSRC}/sbin && \
        (${_obj}; ${_depend}; ${_build})

007_ftpd:
        cd ${WRKSRC}/libexec/ftpd && \
        (${_depend}; ${_build})

008_kerberos:
        cd ${WRKSRC}/lib/libkrb5 && \
        (${_obj}; ${_depend}; ${_build}) && \
        cd ${WRKSRC}/kerberosV/libexec/kdc && \
        (${_obj}; ${_depend}; ${_build})

010_openssl:
        cd ${WRKSRC}/lib/libssl && \
        (${_obj}; ${_depend}; ${_includes}; ${_build}) && \
        cd ${WRKSRC}/sbin && \
        (${_obj}; ${_depend}; ${_build})

You’ll need to modify the above to include more recent patches i.e. patches dated later than June 3rd 2010.

To patch the relevant files on your OpenBSD install, and to prepare packages (in packages/) for installation, as root:

# make PATCH="001" build

# make PATCH="001" plist

# make PATCH="001" package

To install the packages, do:

# make PATCH="001" install

I prefer to use the following script (documented here) to install packages:

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#!/bin/sh
tar xzpf "$1" -C /
mkdir -p /var/db/patches/$(basename "$1" .tgz)

.. or to query previously installed packages:

# ls /var/db/patches/