Automatic conversion of the NetBSD pkgsrc CVS module, use with care
Find a file
2000-07-18 14:01:17 +00:00
archivers make the USE_RSAREF2 check for the distfile match the check for the rsaref 2000-07-06 18:31:45 +00:00
audio Use EVAL_PREFIX to find the installed location of the kdebase package, and 2000-07-17 13:58:20 +00:00
benchmarks -add missing USE_FORTRAN 2000-05-13 14:51:11 +00:00
biology add and enable rasmol 2000-03-13 04:43:21 +00:00
cad Instead of the clunky SHOW_PKG_PREFIX, introduce an EVAL_PREFIX definition, 2000-07-15 20:39:13 +00:00
comms Instead of the clunky SHOW_PKG_PREFIX, introduce an EVAL_PREFIX definition, 2000-07-15 20:39:13 +00:00
converters Instead of the clunky SHOW_PKG_PREFIX, introduce an EVAL_PREFIX definition, 2000-07-15 20:39:13 +00:00
cross add (commented out) armv2-netbsd 2000-07-13 22:15:40 +00:00
databases Solaris uses slurpd, so split the PLISTs. 2000-07-17 09:19:43 +00:00
devel Use EVAL_PREFIX to find the installed location of the kdebase package, and 2000-07-17 13:58:20 +00:00
distfiles Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
editors Make these packages work better with xpkgwedge by using X11PREFIX in 2000-07-11 09:31:32 +00:00
emulators Update pkg to version 0.37b4.1 2000-07-13 20:54:01 +00:00
fonts Include bsd.prefs.mk for proper handling of NO_EXTRA_FONTS. 2000-06-28 21:50:24 +00:00
games Make this package compile on Solaris. 2000-07-17 15:37:15 +00:00
graphics Oops. s/\+/?/ 2000-07-18 08:10:12 +00:00
ham updated Makefile.netbsd file 2000-05-21 13:59:37 +00:00
japanese add patch to prevent buffer overflow. see FreeBSD security advisory 00:31. 2000-07-15 11:57:06 +00:00
lang Update guile to 1.4. Changes since Guile 1.3.4: 2000-07-15 02:31:39 +00:00
mail fix DISTNAME, broken by my last commit. Noted by Solar Designer. 2000-07-12 20:15:11 +00:00
math Update dependencies on guile to >= 1.3.2 2000-07-15 02:36:44 +00:00
mbone Fix dependency on gsm, as noted by Michael Eriksson 2000-06-16 22:40:04 +00:00
meta-pkgs Let's head for DocBook 4.x 2000-07-10 03:35:58 +00:00
misc Use EVAL_PREFIX to find the installed location of the kdebase package, and 2000-07-17 13:58:20 +00:00
mk Fix clean-update target to remove ${DDIR} if it didn't exist before. This 2000-07-18 08:33:49 +00:00
net Update "rp-ppoe" package to version 2.0. Change since version 1.9: 2000-07-17 21:11:45 +00:00
news Use X11PREFIX in preference to X11BASE, just in case xpkgwedge is 2000-07-11 10:03:50 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel Add the patches supplied by Gabriel Rosenkoetter in pkg/10412 and 2000-07-10 23:54:22 +00:00
pkgtools Make the formatting match other Makefiles (so fields match for easy awking). 2000-07-18 14:01:17 +00:00
plan9 Use the defines from bsd.pkg.mk, don't start subshells. 2000-06-14 02:10:57 +00:00
print Be more explicit about where the example config files are copied from 2000-07-13 01:01:11 +00:00
security Add patch to make gnupg work on macppc/ELF. 2000-07-17 23:44:52 +00:00
shells add -Wl,--export-dynamic to LDFLAGS so the package can correctly 2000-05-20 23:05:39 +00:00
sysutils Use EVAL_PREFIX to find the installed location of the kdebase package, and 2000-07-17 13:58:20 +00:00
templates xref README.IPv6 2000-06-26 01:27:29 +00:00
textproc Update libxml to 1.8.9. Changes from 1.8.7 are bugfixes and some mods 2000-07-15 08:09:27 +00:00
www Add and enable asWedit 2000-07-17 09:39:40 +00:00
x11 Use EVAL_PREFIX to find the installed location of the kdebase package, and 2000-07-17 13:58:20 +00:00
Makefile Add and enable fonts. 2000-05-12 18:42:22 +00:00
Packages.txt clarify auto-handling of ELF shlib-links a bit 2000-07-16 17:20:20 +00:00
pkglocate fix to really exit if glimpse is not installed 2000-04-11 16:59:17 +00:00
README some corrections by David Maxwell 2000-01-14 10:32:35 +00:00

$NetBSD: README,v 1.9 2000/01/14 10:32:35 abs 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/mk.conf.example file
provides some examples for customisation.

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, is the default /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 where you found this README, or in your top-level pkgsrc
directory.