Title: Using pkgsrc on OpenBSD
Author: Solène
Date: 06 February 2021
Tags: openbsd pkgsrc
Description: 

This quick article will explain how to install pkgsrc packages on an
OpenBSD installation. This is something regulary asked on #openbsd
freenode irc channel. I am not convinced by the relevant use of pkgsrc
under OpenBSD but why not :)

I will cover an unprivileged installation that doesn't require root. I
will use packages from 2020Q4 release, I may not update regularly this
text so you will have to adapt to your current year.

```shell commands to install pkgsrc, dollar sign mean it's a regular user
$ cd ~/
$ ftp https://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2020Q4/pkgsrc.tar.gz
$ tar -xzf pkgsrc.tar.gz
$ cd pkgsrc/bootstrap
$ ./bootstrap --unprivileged
```

From now you must add the path ~/pkg/bin to your $PATH environment
variable. The pkgsrc tree is in ~/pkgsrc/ and all the relevant files
for it to work are in ~/pkg/.

You can install programs by searching directories of software you want
in ~/pkgsrc/ and run "bmake install", for example in
~/pkgsrc/chat/irssi/ to install irssi irc client.

I'm not sure X11 software compiles well, I got issues compiling dbus as
a dependency of x11/xterm and I got compilation errors, maybe clashing
with Xenocara from base system... I don't really want to investigate
more about this though.