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archivers Fix build on Darwin. All changes are taken from the latest betas of zip. 2002-04-18 16:42:30 +00:00
audio Check for arm and arm32, not just arm32. 2002-04-25 16:34:15 +00:00
benchmarks Fix a typo. 2002-04-17 21:54:46 +00:00
biology Avoid egcs internal compiler error by using gcc-2.95.3 on arm32. 2002-04-20 14:41:05 +00:00
cad Note explicitly that this package is USE_X11BASE. Currently, it relies on 2002-04-23 02:08:51 +00:00
chat update MAINTAINER 2002-04-22 03:19:53 +00:00
comms Remove redefinition of X11PREFIX and use X11PREFIX for location of forms 2002-04-17 18:58:51 +00:00
converters add test target to run self-tests (assists verification on various platforms) 2002-04-24 02:56:15 +00:00
cross Make `dllwrap' (pkg/16156) 2002-04-05 18:55:26 +00:00
databases Remove patch which is no longer needed. 2002-04-19 17:59:51 +00:00
devel Note explicitly that this package is USE_X11BASE. Currently, it relies on 2002-04-23 02:08:51 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
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emulators Update vice to version 1.9. 2002-04-22 21:02:10 +00:00
finance Give all packages which depend on "png" a version bump, and update 2002-03-13 17:36:35 +00:00
fonts Add and enable mozilla-fonts. 2002-04-09 13:18:07 +00:00
games Backout previous arm32 change and redo somewhat more elegantly... 2002-04-20 15:04:47 +00:00
graphics regen: Distfile on MASTER_SITE changed, but only the Changelog inside. 2002-04-23 08:16:03 +00:00
ham add & enable locator 2002-04-19 15:38:52 +00:00
japanese This packages uses xmkmf, so required USE_X11BASE. It needs to be 2002-04-14 14:08:56 +00:00
lang mark as not for alpha (segfaults when running ./pforth during build) 2002-04-24 03:05:31 +00:00
licenses Mention ms-ttf-license in the list of ACCEPTABLE_LICENCES. 2002-03-06 17:05:30 +00:00
mail Replace STRIPFLAG with _STRIPFLAG_INSTALL to fix pkg/15467. 2002-04-25 15:26:02 +00:00
math Updated gnumeric to 1.0.6 2002-04-23 13:31:44 +00:00
mbone Move pkg/ files into package's toplevel directory 2001-10-31 20:59:00 +00:00
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misc The standalone version of the tcsh package can also be used, if it's 2002-04-24 07:22:13 +00:00
mk If we are using the config script wrappers, we prepend their location 2002-04-25 00:03:32 +00:00
net Add and enable "dgd" package. This fixes PR pkg/13765 by Scott Thompson. 2002-04-25 15:20:36 +00:00
news On arm32, use gcc-2.95.3 to avoid internal egcs errors. 2002-04-20 18:18:50 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel Explicitly set PVM_ROOT to fix installation stage. This is due to the change in 2002-02-07 10:49:07 +00:00
pkgtools two small typos 2002-04-25 21:57:28 +00:00
print Note explicitly that this package is USE_X11BASE. Currently, it relies on 2002-04-23 02:08:51 +00:00
security Update to sudo 1.6.6 to fix local root-exploit-possibility as per 2002-04-25 16:57:13 +00:00
shells Imagine my surprise when this failed to build on my -current shark. 2002-04-11 15:26:19 +00:00
sysutils Change the gtar depends line to {gtar,gtar-base}>=1.12:../../archivers/gtar-base 2002-04-25 20:51:55 +00:00
templates Fix the location of DESCR for the readme files 2001-11-03 03:26:08 +00:00
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time Note explicitly that this package is USE_X11BASE. Currently, it relies on 2002-04-23 02:08:51 +00:00
wm Update to 0.1.8 from pkg/16440. 2002-04-22 18:39:18 +00:00
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x11 Set myself as the new MAINTAINER 2002-04-23 17:46:17 +00:00
Makefile replace some leading spaces with leading tabs. 2001-12-17 02:33:46 +00:00
Packages.txt Fix reference to section 8 to point to section 9 instead. 2002-04-13 12:59:52 +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 Note that pkg/16430 provides smsclient package (though not entirely correct one) 2002-04-21 09:42:42 +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.