Automatic conversion of the NetBSD pkgsrc CVS module, use with care
05f7200340
Changes from NEWS are
* The license has been modified so that it will be compatible with
OpenSSL.
* Sent / Drafts / Queue folder on IMAP4 has been enabled.
* The internationalization of IMAP4 folder name has been implemented.
* IMAP4 folder renaming has been implemented.
* Some critical bugs in IMAP4 response parser have been fixed.
* Non-default mailboxes are now specifiable for inbox, sent, draft,
trash folder and the destination of filtering, using folder identifier.
* Folder property dalog has been implemented.
* Special folders can be specified from the folder property dialog.
* 'Outbox' has been changed to 'Sent'.
* Queued messages are now saved to Sent folder after they are actually
sent.
* The auto line-wrapping has been improved.
* 'Reply to sender' now works for newsgroups.
* The SMTP server response is now referred on SMTP AUTH.
* Templates can be inserted into the current cursor position now.
* Confirmation dialog is displayed on sending if sbject is empty.
* Displayed newsgroup names are now abbreviated.
* The timeout of DNS lookup has been implemented.
* 'Ctrl-Enter' shortcut now works even if Num Lock is on.
* The new application icon has been added.
* New message checking on IMAP or news server will be aborted immediately
if some errors occurred.
* Some menu items have been modified.
* Some other bugfixes have been made.
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| cross | ||
| databases | ||
| devel | ||
| distfiles | ||
| editors | ||
| emulators | ||
| finance | ||
| fonts | ||
| games | ||
| graphics | ||
| ham | ||
| japanese | ||
| lang | ||
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| math | ||
| mbone | ||
| meta-pkgs | ||
| misc | ||
| mk | ||
| net | ||
| news | ||
| packages | ||
| parallel | ||
| pkgtools | ||
| security | ||
| shells | ||
| sysutils | ||
| templates | ||
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| Packages.txt | ||
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| README | ||
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$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.