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tron 0f590bb06d Update "xchat" package to version 1.8.7. Change since version 1.8.3:
- Updated Swedish translation (Christian Rose).
 - Updated Russian translation (Anton Farygin).
 - Added Latvian translation (Artis Trops).
 - Made a work-around for a refresh glitch when delinking a tab under
   gnome (the topic bar was overlapped).
 - Fixed the need for signed chars (e.g. on PPC and s390).
 - Fixed background garbage being drawn when using hidden tabs.
 - Cleaned up alot of the nick completion code. Fixed some behaviour
   too (Mukund, dinkles, me).
 - Connect Cmd is executed again if you get auto-reconnected.
 - Added safe-gaurd to stop duplicate nicks in userlist.
 - Added an option to automatically remove finished/failed dccs
   from the list. Use /set dcc_remove ON to enable it.
 - Added an option to truncate long channel tabs. Use:
   /set truncchans xx, where xx is the max chars (Jyrki Muukkonen).
 - Made the default popup menu, dialog buttons, userlist buttons,
   usermenu and urlhandlers translatable (via gettext).
 - MMX tinting is now built on any x86 machine (it's checked at
   runtime anyway).
 - Added "Automatic Unmark Away" option in setup->away (Mads Martin).
 - Immediately abort file transfers when out of space.
 - Fixed a serious CTCP reply vulnerability (Hanno Hecker).
 - Updated Danish translation (Morten Brix Pedersen).
 - Updated Spanish translation (Antonio de la Torre).
 - Updated French translation (Olivier Berger).
 - The server "Connect cmd" is now executed before auto-join-channels,
   so you can use it to authenticate to nickserv etc.
 - Fixed autoresume again, for the last time... no, really.
 - Fixed sending parts for all channels instead of one quit when you
   exit the whole program (helps bncs).
 - Autocomplete in the middle of a sentence won't jump to the end of
   the textbox (Darell Tan).
 - Fixed the buggy 1.8.5 outbound queue. It now sends privmsg/notice
   with a lower priority, but never out-of-order.
 - Updated Slovak translation (Stano Visnovsky).
 - Updated Swedish translation (Christian Rose).
 - Updated Spanish translation (Antonio de la Torre).
 - Updated Hebrew translation (Dan Fruehauf).
 - Some fixes to the MODE parser.
 - Added ability to customize dialog tab buttons (Oskar Liljeblad).
 - Added an extra field in the EditServer window to enter a command
   to execute after logging in.
 - /load -e <file> can now load a file of commands to execute.
 - Added ability to change the log timestamp format (Jyrki Muukkonen).
 - Fixed default keybinding for Shift-PageUp (Mukund).
 - Changed the outbound throttle behaviour. Now only privmsgs and
   notices go to the back of the queue, everything else goes to the
   front.
 - Made it possible to compile with older than 5.6 perl again.
 - The main window's size and position is now saved on exit. Use
   /set mainwindow_save OFF to revert to the old behaviour.
 - Avoid auto-resuming the same file from two different people
   (without breaking autoresume this time).
 - Removed /sslserver and added a -ssl arg to /server, /reconnect,
   /servchan and /newserver.
 - Added support for /server irc://host:port/channel.
 - Added some mmx asm code written by Willem Monsuwe for tinting
   transparency. Use --disable-mmx to revert to gdk-pixbuf method.
 - Fixed resetting your away status after an auto-reconnect.
 - Updated Spanish translation (Antonio de la Torre and Manuel
   García Aguilar).
 - Updated Russian translation (Valek Filippov).
 - Fixed lockup when a file being offered is shortened before being
   accepted.
 - Fixed ** ERROR **: file python.c: line 743 (pysH_Eget_users):
   assertion failed: (cur->hostname).
 - /kickban now deops and bans in one line (-o+b) (Felix Nawothnig).
 - Auto-nickcompletion now uses the nicksuffix setting (Mukund).
 - win32: change log-filenames with a | character to _.
 - When binding to a set hostname/ip, it would try to bind to port
   65535 - fixed.
 - Fixed crash when closing a dcc chat in a perl-dcc-chat-callback.
 - Added option "Beep on Channel Messages" and a Beep button to the
   toolbox ("<" button in the botton right) (Jason Wies).
 - Avoid auto-resuming the same file from two different people.
 - /close -m now closes all dialog/query windows.
2002-01-16 14:59:38 +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 Wrap path name arguments to popen in single quotes, to fix getting info from 2002-01-16 07:59:53 +00:00
benchmarks Update bytebench to 4.1.0. Pkgsrc changes from the previous package include 2002-01-09 11:24:36 +00:00
biology Include x11.buildlink.mk 2001-12-06 04:30:09 +00:00
cad update to 0.0.6. 2001-12-15 22:04:18 +00:00
chat Update "xchat" package to version 1.8.7. Change since version 1.8.3: 2002-01-16 14:59:38 +00:00
comms Bump to 0.5.8nb1: initialize a previously uninitialized auto variable. 2002-01-16 10:15:48 +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 Modify all references to PKGSRCDIR to _PKGSRCDIR, except in the external 2001-12-15 20:25:34 +00:00
databases Update openldap to 2.0.21. Notable changes since version 2.0.20: 2002-01-15 23:26:31 +00:00
devel Update gal to 0.19. Features several new widgets, API enhancements, some 2002-01-16 03:20:17 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
editors Add patches to avoid collision between nvi's VI cpp macro and VI external 2002-01-15 21:19:57 +00:00
emulators Make xmess compile for new systems that have libusbhid.so instead of libusb.so. 2002-01-12 22:53:16 +00:00
finance convert to use the buildlink files for Python and py-mxDateTime, 2002-01-15 18:31:14 +00:00
fonts Run mkttfdir on install and uninstall. Install to ..../TrueType instead 2001-11-29 17:37:57 +00:00
games Update MASTER_SITES. 2002-01-14 17:44:48 +00:00
graphics use buildlink.mk files for Python and py-Numeric 2002-01-15 18:40:06 +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 Don't use Darwin cc options on NetBSD. 2002-01-16 12:32:34 +00:00
licenses VMWare license in preparation for the package in emulators/vmware. 2001-07-07 14:24:21 +00:00
mail Do not mark packages that depend on qmail as IS_INTERACTIVE, 2002-01-16 07:19:06 +00:00
math allow to override the required version just like other buildlink.mks do 2002-01-15 18:38:46 +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 Update misc/php4-mbstring to version 4.1.1. The only change is updating to 2002-01-06 19:56:18 +00:00
mk if a sub-make is invoked to install a prerequisite pkg, pass it the 2002-01-15 17:27:55 +00:00
net Fix broken buildlink glue code so that include files appear in the 2002-01-16 14:21:20 +00:00
news Remove non-existing patch-aa from distinfo. 2002-01-10 14:17:54 +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 and enable shlock. 2002-01-15 13:21:46 +00:00
print Fix a mistake in specification of download site for ${JPEG_SRCS}, pointed 2002-01-11 17:00:27 +00:00
security Make ruby-digest module need ruby 1.6.6 or later. 2002-01-15 16:43:50 +00:00
shells Add patch-ab (recognize mipseb in config.sub). 2002-01-02 15:45:16 +00:00
sysutils Don't hardcode the location of the other rc.d scripts as @RCD_SCRIPTS_DIR@ 2002-01-10 12:01:37 +00:00
templates Fix the location of DESCR for the readme files 2001-11-03 03:26:08 +00:00
textproc Add and enable aspell. 2002-01-15 01:08:28 +00:00
time Add explicit conflict with version 2.0.* of the "python" package. 2002-01-16 12:46:33 +00:00
wm Add and enable fluxbox (hi Jared!) 2002-01-04 10:36:40 +00:00
www Fix an incorrect usage of ${MAKE_ENV} which was keeping cocoon from building 2002-01-14 15:35:46 +00:00
x11 Update to revision 1: let xwit's imake generated Makefile do the install 2002-01-16 14:09:26 +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.