Working with *BSD ports Trying to update syslog-ng in FreeBSD, DragonFlyBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD

BSDs have a clear separation of a base system and external applications. Ports allows to maintain external applications for BSDs. You can install binary packages built from ports with sensible defaults for most applications. Sometimes, more features are available if you compile a port yourself from ports.

Peter has helped with maintaining the syslog-ng port in FreeBSD for the past decade and checked syslog-ng and sudo recently also OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD. He will discuss similarities and differences between ports systems and his (still ongoing) experiences while trying to update syslog-ng in various ports systems.

Peter Czanik Peter started to use FreeBSD with version 1.X in 1994. He is an engineer working as open source evangelist at Balabit (a One Identity business), the company that developed syslog-ng. He assists FreeBSD and Linux distributions to maintain the syslog-ng package, follows bug trackers, helps users and talks regularly about sudo and syslog-ng at conferences (SCALE, All Things Open, FOSDEM, LOADays, and others). In his limited free time he is interested in non-x86 architectures, and works on one of his PPC or ARM machines.