WebPKG

WebPKG is a web interface for the OpenBSD package catalogue. It features a full-text search and packages pages.

Building

On OpenBSD

$ doas pkg_add kcgi sqlbox sqlports
$ make install

This will install the webpkg executable, the sqlite3 database and the CSS file in /var/www. It’s recommended to use httpd with slowcgi:

# rcctl enable httpd slowcgi
# rcctl start httpd slowcgi

Then you need something along these lines in your httpd.conf

server "webpkg.local" {
	listen on * port 80
	location found "/*" {
		pass
	}
	location "*" {
		fastcgi
		root "/cgi-bin/webpkg.cgi"
	}
}

Other systems

The bad news is that you are (unfortunately) on your own. The good news is that deploying is simple. I’ve successfully ran webpkg under FreeBSD in no time.

You need a webserver that is able to execute CGI scripts (or FastCGI, but then you need slowcgi(8) or similar). You also need to install kcgi and sqlbox and a POSIX make.

For the database, you can download the tarball of sqlports from your preferred OpenBSD mirror (for example), and extract (it’s a tar-bomb!) share/sqlports.