In OpenBSD how to upgrade individual system files like (grep, rcs, rlog ) to latest version?

Question

I am attempting to run foswiki on OpenBSD. Things are installed and i am able to open "/bin/Configure" page of foswiki configuration screen. but the page reports few errors, complaining that following files are either not found or outdated and new versions are required.

The Files are : grep, rcs, ci, co,rlog, rcsdiff

I tried commands like "pkg_add -Uu" to upgrade packages installed, but it reports all packages are uptodate.

I also tried "pkg_add rcs" "pkg_add grep" etc but non works.

So my basic question is how to I update above files to their latest version required by foswiki.

Regards

Answer 1

While I’m not familiar with Foswiki, my first thought is your web server is chrooted, as this is the default on OpenBSD, and, as a result, Foswiki cannot find the files it needs. You can copy the files Foswiki needs into the chroot or run the web server without chroot, which is bad from a security perspective.

Answer 2

all programs mentioned are part of a base openbsd install and the above answer is correct. the openbsd documentation on chrooted apache has more info.

if you don't have to stick with foswiki you can try dokuwiki instead which has package support on openbsd and installs easily in very much the same way you tried already:

sudo pkg_add -U dokuwiki

hope the process is pretty much self-descriptive. in addition, the manpage for pkg_add is a good thing to read. good luck!