Automatic conversion of the NetBSD pkgsrc CVS module, use with care
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archivers USE_PKGLOCALEDIR, remove unnecessary patches. 2002-11-30 11:16:17 +00:00
audio USE_PKGLOCALEDIR, remove unnecessary patches, delint. 2002-11-30 11:46:02 +00:00
benchmarks Workaround problem with passing CC to submakes. 2002-11-14 23:08:51 +00:00
biology USE_PKGLOCALEDIR. 2002-11-30 15:31:59 +00:00
cad USE_PKGLOCALEDIR. 2002-11-30 12:22:02 +00:00
chat USE_PKGLOCALEDIR, remove unnecessary patch, delint. 2002-11-30 12:41:05 +00:00
comms USE_PKGLOCALEDIR 2002-11-30 13:36:13 +00:00
converters USE_PKGLOCALEDIR 2002-11-30 13:36:13 +00:00
cross Fix build error when devel/autoheader is not installed. 2002-10-16 05:11:00 +00:00
databases USE_PKGLOCALEDIR, delint. 2002-11-30 16:24:35 +00:00
devel We still need PKGLOCALEDIR for configure script here. 2002-11-30 21:08:23 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
doc Note update of sysbuild to 1.1 2002-11-30 15:52:11 +00:00
editors Add and enable hnb. 2002-11-29 20:18:26 +00:00
emulators Make this file fit into 80x24, and include link to instructions on 2002-11-28 21:43:23 +00:00
finance Use the swig buildlink2.mk file, which properly only adds a build 2002-11-26 23:18:14 +00:00
fonts Remove first paragraph, now redundant with the message automaticly 2002-11-08 15:51:25 +00:00
games missed from last commit. 2002-11-30 14:47:35 +00:00
graphics USE_PKGLOCALEDIR. 2002-11-30 14:50:13 +00:00
ham Complete standardization of messages according to latest pkglint. 2002-09-24 12:29:55 +00:00
inputmethod Update ddskk package to 20021124. 2002-11-30 13:29:21 +00:00
lang USE_PKGLOCALEDIR. 2002-11-30 14:50:13 +00:00
licenses Add a license for freshly imported /devel/pvs. Also available online 2002-09-24 17:58:32 +00:00
mail Because of PKGREVISION, PKGNAME is now sendmail-8.8.8nb1, so we can't use 2002-11-30 19:24:17 +00:00
math fix MAINTAINER= Name <email> to only include email address. 2002-11-10 00:35:07 +00:00
mbone Add configure patch to remove autoconf dependency. 2002-10-02 22:47:35 +00:00
meta-pkgs Convert to buildlink2 (untested). 2002-10-05 11:26:35 +00:00
misc Add some patch from PHP's cvs repositry (PHP_4_2_0 branch). 2002-11-30 15:13:24 +00:00
mk turn on USE_INET6 in a KAME IPv6 environment other than NetBSD. 2002-11-30 16:49:00 +00:00
net only apply IPv6 patches if USE_INET6 is set. 2002-11-30 18:03:20 +00:00
news Use buildlink2. 2002-11-14 13:31:55 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel Add distinfo, noted missing by Hiramatsu Yoshifumi on tech-pkg. 2002-11-20 19:53:06 +00:00
pkgtools Typo. 2002-11-26 08:33:18 +00:00
print Some virtual font files were updated on the master site. Pointed out by 2002-11-29 02:34:03 +00:00
security Add patch to reopen stdout/stderr to /dev/null to quelch whining about 2002-11-30 14:56:53 +00:00
shells Build script needs to be run with Pdksh. Reconverted to Buildlink2. 2002-11-29 04:16:45 +00:00
sysutils During the build-sets target, sysbuild directly calls `make sets' inside 2002-11-30 15:50:16 +00:00
templates Fix the location of DESCR for the readme files 2001-11-03 03:26:08 +00:00
textproc oops, forgot that 2002-11-27 18:38:18 +00:00
time Update to 1.38 2002-11-15 02:50:24 +00:00
wm Update to 1.1nb1 -- make it work with python versions other than 2.1. 2002-11-23 23:23:52 +00:00
www update to 0.8.6.1 2002-11-29 17:49:50 +00:00
x11 Update to 2.09: 2002-11-29 17:25:22 +00:00
Makefile Some whitespace cleanup. 2002-09-24 13:59:20 +00:00
Packages.txt Introduce new framework for handling packages' locale directories. 2002-11-28 14:21:32 +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

$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.