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OpenBSD folklore and share/misc/airport

by mulander on 6/9/22, 7:04 AM with 77 comments

  • by trwired on 6/9/22, 11:47 AM

    "One can say anything about Lublin airport, but they sure do consider IATA codes are serious business. The tone was set right from the parking lot entrance."

    The reason Lublin's IATA code is so prominently exposed is because the word "luz" in Polish means - among others - the state of being relaxed, chilled out. Just a bit of marketing on the city's part.

  • by em500 on 6/9/22, 8:04 AM

    Ok, I'll ask the obvious. Why is OpenBSD trying to maintain a list of IATA airport codes?

    (And before you ask why not, try to think of some answers yourself first. I can come up with a few drawbacks, though I'm nowhere close to a subject expert.)

  • by efortis on 6/9/22, 7:16 AM

    Not your everyday caveats section:

    https://man.openbsd.org/airport.7#CAVEATS

  • by codetrotter on 6/9/22, 7:36 AM

    Here’s a copy of the current version of the file itself https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/share/misc/airpor...

  • by mike_d on 6/9/22, 7:53 AM

    Here is the complete file if you are curious: https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/share/misc/airpor...

    There are ~2,000 entries vs ~11,000 assigned IATA airport codes

  • by leugim on 6/9/22, 7:55 AM

    I visited 4 airports that aren't in the list. Do you think I can add them to the list? Never committed before to OpenBSD so I do not know if I compute as a "OpenBSD developers" in "New airports can only be added by OpenBSD developers who have visited an airport and thereby have verified its existence."

  • by Tabular-Iceberg on 6/9/22, 11:25 AM

    I thought this was going to be about https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#43 where the author claims that Richard Stallman made a scene and had to be removed from a plane from Washington DC to New Orleans.

    It sounds like a severe enough accusation that there should be some corroborating evidence.

  • by midislack on 6/10/22, 1:14 PM

    Mr. Cambus is also the author of the excellent ansiweather script.