Update dead OpenBSD link on downloads page #7885
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Signed-off-by: Alexander Brandes <[email protected]>
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The openports.pl site has been a good web interface to the OpenBSD ports system for years. It seems to be offline, though it is still referenced in the Wikipedia article on the ports system and it is still appearing in my Google search results for "OpenBSD ports".
The link to source code is a valid link that is not likely to break, but it does not provide the same information that was available at openports.pl. Some of the information that was previously at openports.pl is now on openports.eum though it is outdated information.
I found no indication in the OpenBSD ports mailing list archive that openports.pl is planned to close, but it is clearly down.
Let's make this change now and accept that if the openports.pl site is online in the future, we can again point to it.
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jenkins-infra#7885 detected that the OpenBSD download links for weekly and LTS were pointing to a site that is offline. It corrected that by pointing to the package definitions in the OpenBSD ports. The package definitions in OpenBSD ports are not helpful for a user that wants to install on OpenBSD. They need more instructions. Stuart Henderson recommended that the macOS install pages are a good model to also explain OpenBSD installation. Refer to the OpenBSD ports mailing list thread https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=173979027021545&w=2 for more details. These instructions intentionally do not include a package version number in the pkg_add command line. The Jenkins install page should not track OpenBSD package versions. The FAQ at https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PkgInstall shows that the user will be prompted to choose one of the available versions when they use 'jenkins' without a package version number. No upgrade instructions are included because Stuart Henderson suggests that OpenBSD users of Jenkins will tend to install the current Jenkins at the time they install the operating system and will perform updates themselves based on their configuration of OpenBSD.
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#7885 detected that the OpenBSD download links for weekly and LTS were pointing to a site that is offline. It corrected that by pointing to the package definitions in the OpenBSD ports. The package definitions in OpenBSD ports are not helpful for a user that wants to install on OpenBSD. They need more instructions. Stuart Henderson recommended that the macOS install pages are a good model to also explain OpenBSD installation. Refer to the OpenBSD ports mailing list thread https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=173979027021545&w=2 for more details. These instructions intentionally do not include a package version number in the pkg_add command line. The Jenkins install page should not track OpenBSD package versions. The FAQ at https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PkgInstall shows that the user will be prompted to choose one of the available versions when they use 'jenkins' without a package version number. No upgrade instructions are included because Stuart Henderson suggests that OpenBSD users of Jenkins will tend to install the current Jenkins at the time they install the operating system and will perform updates themselves based on their configuration of OpenBSD.
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As the title says, the URL provided is dead.