Tor TransPort on OpenBSD?

[macintoshzoom]

Hi Christopher Davis,

What it is exactly "trunk" vs "0.2.0.30"?
I'm a bit confused about all this jargon and cvs repositories.

What should I do now?

I built my tor port for tor-0.2.1.1-alpha (seems successfully) but now I 
am on 4.4 -current (+-) (1-2 weeks ago) and last tor source is stable 
0.2.0.30 and unstable 0.2.1.4-alpha:

Which one do you recommend?... I want latest TransPort and tor features 
and I'm on an experimental box, so I don't care too much about bugs if 
they are not a privacy/security issue, that is the main tor 
implementation goal.

I think I would like to go by now to stable 0.2.0.30 if TransPorts works 
as you tell, unless the alpha offers stunning new improvements... Do you 
know?

I would like to build a new personal port for my i386 box using this 
last sources.
Could you briefly tell me how?

Latest port at openports.se mirror from Rui Reis is for tor-0.1.2.19, 
now "obsolete" (OpenBSD is always "obsolete" in many latest top-trend 
software, I am quite tired about this (I hope they get some $millions 
soon to improve its paid staff) ... (this is why I am starting to learn 
how to build my own ports for key software).

I patched my port by hand, using as sample the openports.se latest port 
from then, by I would like to know how to patch from (your) diff file-s 
using the KDE kompare (I am on KDE graphical environment, I am building 
an OpenBSD graphical system, you know, to attract MS and youngsters, ex 
MS-user from decades ago ...) or the proper OpenBSD experts console tool 
which I don't (yet) know which one is.

Thanks for your efforts for porting latest tor, there are about half a 
million privacy/conscious tor users worldwide, and many ones from 
oppressed countries as fascist China and the like (beware!, privacy 
human rights are also threatened in the states), where free-speech is 
forbidden and people get 10 years jail just to check amnesty.org, 
hrw.org, or tibetan-exiled gov pages!
For them a secure OpenBSD + tor bundle (which I am trying to build) is a 
breeze of hope in their future.

Mac.

Christopher Davis wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 08:00:48AM -0600, macintoshzoom wrote:
>> Does someone of you had success enabling the tor TransPort feature on
>> OpenBSD?
>>
>> It seems there are some bugs:
>> "transport warn open /dev/pf failed -- Permission denied"
>> bugs.torproject.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&id=782
>>
>> But as per [or-cvs] r16450 mail list it seems that it's to be resolved 
>> in latest tor ??:
>> <<<
>> Patch from Christopher Davis: open /dev/pf before dropping privileges.
>> Fixes bug 782.  Backport candidate.
>> <<<
>>
>> I am testing OpenBSD 4.4 -current.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I made the diff for trunk, but the patch seems to apply cleanly 
> to 0.2.0.30, as well. ie:
> 
> Macintosh:tor-0.2.0.30 chrisd$ patch -p0 < pf_open_startup.patch
> patching file src/or/config.c
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 1022 (offset -38 lines).
> patching file src/or/connection_edge.c
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 1633 (offset -8 lines).
> patching file src/or/or.h
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 2855 (offset -84 lines).
> 
>