Installing Netatalk 3 on OpenBSD

Instructions for installing netatalk 3.x on OpenBSD 7.5

Prepare

Install requisite packages for netatalk:

pkg_add -I \
  autoconf-2.71 \
  automake-1.16.5 \
  avahi \
  bison \
  dbus-glib \
  db-4.6.21p7v0 \
  gcc-11.2.0p11 \
  gmake \
  libevent \
  libgcrypt \
  libtalloc \
  libtool \
  meson \
  openldap-client-2.6.7v0 \
  pkgconf \
  tracker3

Build

export AUTOCONF_VERSION=2.71
export AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.16
./bootstrap
./configure --with-tracker-pkgconfig-version=3.0
make
make install

Run

Create an init script like the below as /etc/rc.d/netatalk and set the right permissions; from the netatalk source tree root:

#!/bin/ksh

daemon="/usr/local/sbin/netatalk"

. /etc/rc.d/rc.subr

rc_start() {
        rc_exec ". ~/.profile; ${daemon}"
}

rc_cmd $1

chmod 0555 /etc/rc.d/netatalk

Enable and start the service

rcctl -d enable netatalk
rcctl -d start netatalk