[tor-talk] Tor on OpenBSD 5.6

[Richard Johnson]

On 2015-03-23 14:40, Seth wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 10:36:00 -0700, Daniel Jakots <vigdis+tor at chown.me> wrote:
>> Yeah, why using a port/package when you can do everything manually?
>
> The version of Tor that installs from packages with the release version of
> OpenBSD 5.6 is 0.2.4.22. It's sheer madness of course, but OP might actually
> want to run a current version of Tor.
>
> Doubling down on the madness, they might even want to understand how to build
> and configure it from source so that they better understand how it works.
>
> If the user really wanted 'click on this big shiny button to install Tor you
> mouth-breathing idiot' option, I don't think they would be choosing OpenBSD as
> their operating system.

Your strange attitude aside, one can learn much on OpenBSD by updating the 
ports and building a revised package.

Easy enough to change the version in Makefile, confirm PGP sig, and update 
distinfo.


Richard