I want to contribute to OpenBSD. Where should I begin?

2024-09-08 Thread Neel chakraborty
Hello everyone, I have recently begun using OpenBSD regularly and am impressed with the user experience thus far. I am keen to contribute to the project and would appreciate your guidance on how to get started. I have some experience with C and shell scripting. Would you recommend starting by rea

How does pkg_info get the dependencies of a package?

2025-04-03 Thread Neel Chakraborty
Hello everyone, hope you're having a good day. I am trying to understand how does pkg_info -f show the dependencies of a certain package? Does it use the OpenBSD::PackingList perl module for showing the dependencies? If yes,then how does the perl module work? I don't know a lick of perl, so I can

Re: How does pkg_info get the dependencies of a package?

2025-04-03 Thread Neel Chakraborty
On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 11:20:41AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2025-04-03, Neel Chakraborty wrote: > > Hello everyone, hope you're having a good day. > > > > I am trying to understand how does pkg_info -f > > show the dependencies of a certain package? &g

Resources to learn modern C relevant to OpenBSD

2025-07-29 Thread Neel Chakraborty
Hello everyone, hope you're having a great day. I am looking for resources to learn modern C, so that I can understand (and hopefully someday contribute) to the OpenBSD source code, in areas like device drivers, kernel and the init system. I am not new to C, I have previous programming experience