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dmcmahill 052b213245 update to ngspice-14
A pkgsrc specific change is that it no longer conflicts with the
cad/spice package allowing both to be installed.


From the NEWS file:

This is a major release in terms of bug-fixes. Some enhancements
have been included: BSIM4 model and support for EKV model. The
source code for the latter must be obtained from EKV web site
(see DEVICE for more info). To enable EKV support you have
to obtain the code first and then use the configure switch
"--enable-ekv".
2002-01-26 02:38:30 +00:00
archivers Update archivers/php4-zlib to version 4.1.1. The only change is updating to 2002-01-06 19:54:22 +00:00
audio Add kludge to fix problems with CDDB entries with genre "unclass" which 2002-01-25 08:38:34 +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 naim seems to be a quickly moving target - the two-or-three day old 2002-01-25 22:45:50 +00:00
comms This package depends on xpm, says the alpha bulk build. 2002-01-24 18:20:06 +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 oops, forgot this 2002-01-23 12:02:33 +00:00
devel Add and enable cssc. 2002-01-24 23:51:22 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
editors Update hexedit to 1.2.2 2002-01-18 22:59:30 +00:00
emulators Fix extraction (newer lha seems to support different commands), and 2002-01-24 12:16:14 +00:00
finance Switch to new "python" dependency scheme. 2002-01-23 20:15:35 +00:00
fonts Use PKGREVISION instead of nb. 2002-01-22 21:53:15 +00:00
games Add xtris-1.15: 2002-01-25 17:47:19 +00:00
graphics Fix pkg/15110; also pass PKGLOCALEDIR so that the locale file 2002-01-25 19:20:28 +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 for transition, move to lang/python20/Makefile.inc 2002-01-22 18:26:19 +00:00
licenses VMWare license in preparation for the package in emulators/vmware. 2001-07-07 14:24:21 +00:00
mail Upate "mutt-devel" package to version 1.3.27. This version fixes the SSL 2002-01-25 14:15:59 +00:00
math Depend on at least version 0.11.0 of gdk-pixbuf{,-gnome}. Fixes 2002-01-25 02:00:11 +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 Add buildlink.mk file for use by other packages, 2002-01-21 15:43:46 +00:00
mk Optimize the code to extract distfiles based on the extract suffix by 2002-01-25 07:16:16 +00:00
net Provide a patch to the configure script based on the already existing 2002-01-25 10:27:49 +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 nuke python-mk, it's not needed anymore 2002-01-17 13:10:00 +00:00
print Update to 1.6.1nb1: fix temporary file creation vulnerability; 2002-01-25 18:57:58 +00:00
security Update sudo package to 1.6.5.2 (1.6.5p2). 2002-01-24 16:01:02 +00:00
shells Add patch-ab (recognize mipseb in config.sub). 2002-01-02 15:45:16 +00:00
sysutils Restrict to new-toolchain systems because of assembler problems. 2002-01-24 15:50:45 +00:00
templates Fix the location of DESCR for the readme files 2001-11-03 03:26:08 +00:00
textproc Depend on 0.12.2nb1 (link fix). 2002-01-24 13:49:59 +00:00
time $(TOP_X_INCLUDES) doesn't need to be prefixed with "-I" since its value, 2002-01-24 15:07:35 +00:00
wm Weakly buildlinkify, and add locale files to PLIST. 2002-01-24 15:22:36 +00:00
www Set path in skipstone script to X11BASE -- that's where mozilla is installed; 2002-01-25 17:44:00 +00:00
x11 Fix the mimelnk/application/x-core.desktop pattern. 2002-01-25 19:28:11 +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.