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mjl 04c1aeaf83 Update to bison 1.32
* Fix Yacc output file names
* Portability fixes
* Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Russian translation
* Many Bug Fixes
* Use of alloca in parsers
* When the generated parser lacks debugging code, YYDEBUG is now 0
  (as POSIX requires) instead of being undefined.
* User Actions
  Bison has always permitted actions such as { $$ = $1 }: it adds the
  ending semicolon.  Now if in Yacc compatibility mode, the semicolon
  is no longer output: one has to write { $$ = $1; }.
* Better C++ compliance
  The output parsers try to respect C++ namespaces.
* Reduced Grammars
  Fixed bugs when reporting useless nonterminals.
* 64 bit hosts
  The parsers work properly on 64 bit hosts.
* Error messages
  Some calls to strerror resulted in scrambled or missing error messages.
* The verbose report includes the rule line numbers.
* Rule line numbers are fixed in traces.
* Parse errors
  Verbose parse error messages from the parsers are better looking.
* Fixed parser memory leaks.
  When the generated parser was using malloc to extend its stacks, the
  previous allocations were not freed.
* Fixed verbose output file.
  Some newlines were missing.
  Some conflicts in state descriptions were missing.
* Fixed conflict report.
  Option -v was needed to get the result.
* Fixed incorrect processing of some invalid input.
* Fixed CPP guards: 9foo.h uses BISON_9FOO_H instead of 9FOO_H.
* %token MY_EOF 0 is supported.
  Before, MY_EOF was silently renumbered as 257.
* doc/refcard.tex is updated.
* %output, %file-prefix, %name-prefix.
* --output
* `--defines' and `--graph' have now an optionnal argument which is the
  output file name. `-d' and `-g' do not change, they do not take any
  argument.
* Portability fixes.
* The output file does not define const, as this caused problems when used
  with common autoconfiguration schemes.  If you still use ancient compilers
  that lack const, compile with the equivalent of the C compiler option
  `-Dconst='.  autoconf's AC_C_CONST macro provides one way to do this.
* Added `-g' and `--graph'.
* The input and the output files has automatically a similar extension.
* NLS support updated; should hopefully be less troublesome.
* Added the old Bison reference card.
* Added `--locations' and `%locations'.
* Added `-S' and `--skeleton'.
* `%raw', `-r', `--raw' is disabled.
* Special characters are escaped when output.  This solves the problems
  of the #line lines with path names including backslashes.
* New directives.
* @$ Automatic location tracking.
2002-01-31 13:43:57 +00:00
archivers Use auto-extract code for .shar files. 2002-01-27 18:32:32 +00:00
audio Updated xmp-2.0.4 (provided by Rui-Xiang Guo in pkg/15283) 2002-01-29 07:41:28 +00:00
benchmarks Undo last -- version was already bumped. 2002-01-22 20:50:52 +00:00
biology Include x11.buildlink.mk 2001-12-06 04:30:09 +00:00
cad update to ngspice-14 2002-01-26 02:38:30 +00:00
chat Added p5-Net-AIM and p5-Net-AOLIM 2002-01-31 07:36:19 +00:00
comms fix bug in previous 2002-01-30 10:19:39 +00:00
converters Better late than never, update to recode-3.6. Changes since 3.5 include: 2002-01-11 13:20:22 +00:00
cross Use INSTALL_DATA for a DLL instead of INSTALL_PROGRAM. 2002-01-24 16:10:35 +00:00
databases Update databases/openldap to 2.0.21nb1. Changes from version 2.0.21 are 2002-01-31 05:06:54 +00:00
devel Update to bison 1.32 2002-01-31 13:43:57 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
editors Updated vim to 6.0.151 2002-01-28 14:06:49 +00:00
emulators Add sound support, provided by Ben Collver in pkg/14375. 2002-01-29 10:53:41 +00:00
finance use Python 1.5 - it seems this program was developed with it 2002-01-29 19:41:30 +00:00
fonts Updated mkttfdir to 1.2 (provided by Rui-Xiang Guo in pkg/15338) 2002-01-26 06:47:09 +00:00
games use buildlink files for Python and py-Tk 2002-01-28 17:38:44 +00:00
graphics Apply mods from Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org> in PR 15269 to 2002-01-30 12:05:27 +00:00
ham Move pkg/ files into package's toplevel directory 2001-10-31 20:59:00 +00:00
japanese Update p5-Jcode package to 0.79. Changes from 0.78 is here. 2002-01-16 14:56:47 +00:00
lang Fix long-standing bug where -R${PREFIX}/lib wasn't being recorded in the 2002-01-30 22:35:57 +00:00
licenses VMWare license in preparation for the package in emulators/vmware. 2001-07-07 14:24:21 +00:00
mail Add and enable p5-Mail-SpamAssassin and p5-razor-agents. 2002-01-31 11:02:07 +00:00
math comment out Python support - it doesn't work anyway 2002-01-29 12:36:46 +00:00
mbone Move pkg/ files into package's toplevel directory 2001-10-31 20:59:00 +00:00
meta-pkgs Wildcard DEPENDS on glimpse. 2001-12-03 17:56:55 +00:00
misc not needed anymore 2002-01-28 09:25:36 +00:00
mk In the show-vulnerabilities and show-vulnerabilities-html targets, tighten 2002-01-29 15:07:55 +00:00
net Fix cpp handling in vnc's private imake to deal with change of cpp location 2002-01-31 09:49:19 +00:00
news Apply fix from PR 15311 from David Rankin - include bsd.prefs.mk before 2002-01-21 15:14:14 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel Move pkg/ files into package's toplevel directory 2001-10-31 22:52:58 +00:00
pkgtools Add XFree86 4.2.0 additions, bump version to 0.6: 2002-01-27 10:32:30 +00:00
print Add USE_PAM to BUILD_DEFS when we build with PAM support. 2002-01-30 03:33:29 +00:00
security Don't override CONFIGURE_ARGS but append it. 2002-01-30 11:52:43 +00:00
shells Add patch-ab (recognize mipseb in config.sub). 2002-01-02 15:45:16 +00:00
sysutils Upgrade fdgw to fdgw-20020127 2002-01-29 18:24:29 +00:00
templates Fix the location of DESCR for the readme files 2001-11-03 03:26:08 +00:00
textproc Added html2wml 2002-01-31 08:40:41 +00:00
time Use auto-extract code for .shar files. 2002-01-27 18:32:32 +00:00
wm Honor PKG_SYSCONFDIR and use the general INSTALL/DEINSTALL scripts. 2002-01-31 04:07:59 +00:00
www Enable wApua 2002-01-30 02:29:36 +00:00
x11 add this for depending pkgs 2002-01-29 11:33:11 +00:00
Makefile replace some leading spaces with leading tabs. 2001-12-17 02:33:46 +00:00
Packages.txt Add and document a new OBJHOSTNAME definition. 2002-01-11 14:41:41 +00:00
pkglocate Apply mods from PR 14495, from Ryo HAYASAKA (ryoh@jaist.ac.jp), so that 2001-11-07 22:11:13 +00:00
README Update a sentence which used to talk about mk.conf.example to explain the 2001-12-03 21:33:56 +00:00
TODO We have pthread.buildlink.mk now instead of the proposed USE_PTHREAD. 2002-01-03 12:41:22 +00:00

$NetBSD: README,v 1.13 2001/12/03 21:33:56 agc Exp $

Welcome to the NetBSD Packages Collection
=========================================

In brief, the NetBSD Packages Collection is a set of software
utilities and libraries which have been ported to NetBSD.

The packages collection software can retrieve the software from its
home site, assuming you are connected in some way to the Internet,
verify its integrity, apply any patches, configure the software for
NetBSD, and build it.  Any prerequisite software will also be built
and installed for you.  Installation and de-installation of software
is managed by the packaging utilities.

The packages collection is made into a tar_file every week: 

	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/pkgsrc.tar.gz

and you can sup the pkgsrc tree using the `pkgsrc' name for the
collection.

The pkgsrc tree is laid out in various categories, and, within that,
the various packages themselves.

You need to have root privileges to install packages.  We are looking
at ways to remove this restriction.

+ To install a package on your system, you need to change into the
directory of the package, and type "make install".

+ If you've made a mistake, and decided that you don't want that
package on your system, then type "pkg_delete <pkg-name>", or "make
deinstall" while in the directory for the package.

+ To find out all the packages that you have installed on your system,
type "pkg_info".

+ To remove the work directory, type "make clean", and "make
clean-depends" will clean up any working directories for other
packages that are built in the process of making your package.

+ Optionally, you can periodically run "make clean" from the top
level pkgsrc directory. This will delete extracted and built files,
but will not affect the retreived source sets in pkgsrc/distfiles.

+ You can set variables to customise the behaviour (where packages are
installed, various options for individual packages etc), by setting
variables in /etc/mk.conf.  The pkgsrc/mk/bsd.pkg.defaults.mk gives
the defaults which are used in pkgsrc.  This file can be used as a
guide to set values in /etc/mk.conf - it is only necessary to set
values where they differ from the defaults.

The best way to find out what packages are in the collection is to
move to the top-level pkgsrc directory (this will usually be
/usr/pkgsrc), and type "make readme".  This will create a file called
README.html in the top-level pkgsrc directory, and also in all
category and package directories.  You can then see what packages are
available, along with a short (one-line) comment about the function of
the package, and a pointer to a fuller description, by using a browser
like lynx (see pkgsrc/www/lynx) or Mozilla (pkgsrc/www/mozilla), or
Communicator.  This is also available online as
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/README.html.

Another way to find out what packages are in the collection is to
move to the top-level pkgsrc directory and type "make index". This
will create pkgsrc/INDEX which can be viewed via "make print-index | more".
You can also search for particular packages or keywords via
"make search key=<somekeyword>".

It is also possible to use the packaging software to install
pre-compiled binary packages by typing "pkg_add <URL-of-binary-pkg>". 
To see what binary packages are available, see:

	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/<release>/<arch>/All/

where <release> is the NetBSD release, and <arch> is the hardware
architecture.

One limitation of using binary packages provided from ftp.netbsd.org
is that all mk.conf options were set to the defaults at compile time.
LOCALBASE, in particular, defaults to /usr/pkg, so non-X binaries
will be installed in /usr/pkg/bin, man pages will be installed in
/usr/pkg/man...

When a packaged tool has major compile time choices, such as support
for multiple graphic toolkit libraries, the different options may
be available as separate packages.

For more information on the packages collection see the file
Packages.txt file in the same place where you found this README,
usually in the top-level pkgsrc dir.
directory.