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archivers Update HOMEPAGE. 2001-01-11 20:13:49 +00:00
audio Wildcard dependency on libcdaudio. 2001-01-13 12:32:04 +00:00
benchmarks CFLAGS+= instead of CFLAGS= 2001-01-11 01:56:13 +00:00
biology Add and enable "chemtool". Fixes PR pkg/11377 by Jason Beegan. 2000-11-25 20:14:30 +00:00
cad update to verilog-current-20010113 2001-01-14 19:01:13 +00:00
chat Make this package build on Solaris. 2001-01-11 11:00:24 +00:00
comms The way that shared objects were handled in the PLISTs and bsd.pkg.mk was 2001-01-04 15:10:17 +00:00
converters Make this build without root permissions. Fixes Luke's PR 11893. 2001-01-11 10:56:33 +00:00
cross sync PLIST with reality. 2001-01-09 14:44:43 +00:00
databases Add support for NetBSD-*-powerpc to embedded mit-pthreads, and enable 2001-01-10 06:03:13 +00:00
devel Move check for C++ contructors/destructors to occur earlier to prevent 2001-01-15 15:18:23 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
editors USE_CURSES, not DEPENDS on ncurses. 2001-01-08 16:09:09 +00:00
emulators Fix typo. 2001-01-11 21:21:17 +00:00
finance Update HOMEPAGE. 2001-01-11 20:13:49 +00:00
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games Allow generated code to execute on 386-class machines. People wanting to 2001-01-15 07:00:03 +00:00
graphics Back out previous - all these dirs are removed by libgii. 2001-01-16 12:59:48 +00:00
ham sort 2000-10-24 10:13:35 +00:00
japanese A bogus `}' prevented jman from working properly when MANPATH was not set. 2001-01-15 14:02:51 +00:00
lang Use ${PKGNAME} instead of hard-coding gcc-2.95.2. 2001-01-16 16:53:59 +00:00
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meta-pkgs Wildcard dependency on lynx. 2001-01-13 12:38:21 +00:00
misc USE_CURSES, not DEPENDS on ncurses. 2001-01-08 16:09:09 +00:00
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pkgtools Fix typo in last commit. 2001-01-13 16:23:04 +00:00
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time Update to not DEPEND on gettext any longer, but BUILD_DEPEND on msgfmt 2001-01-05 01:40:38 +00:00
wm Standardize version number: "0.62.x" -> "0.62nb1" 2001-01-13 19:22:36 +00:00
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x11 Add and enable qt2-examples 2001-01-16 00:11:48 +00:00
Makefile Move lots of packages to new time category; fix links; add time subcategory 2000-12-17 23:40:53 +00:00
Packages.txt Make it clear that it's a bad idea to try having multiple (different) 2001-01-06 03:10:02 +00:00
pkglocate fix to really exit if glimpse is not installed 2000-04-11 16:59:17 +00:00
README No paragraph (picking nits). 2000-07-23 18:02:33 +00:00

$NetBSD: README,v 1.11 2000/07/23 18:02:33 fredb 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, 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 where you found this README, or in your top-level pkgsrc
directory.