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archivers Add missing conflict entry. 1999-01-09 01:26:09 +00:00
audio Shut up the compiler warnings on alpha. 1998-12-31 05:51:01 +00:00
benchmarks work around PREFIX not being defined for exist() 1999-01-02 02:26:34 +00:00
cad Update geda to 19981213, provided in pr 6693 by Rene Hexel. 1998-12-31 12:05:52 +00:00
comms utilitiy -> utility 1999-01-02 10:09:25 +00:00
converters Depend on version 1.42 of "qt" package. 1998-12-29 19:42:09 +00:00
corba Update "ORBit" package to version 0.3.90. 1998-12-19 12:31:46 +00:00
cross Add --enable-64-bit-bfd to gas's configure args to match binutils pkg's 1999-01-13 14:56:38 +00:00
databases Update to 1.1.2, which fixes a bug taht caused an error when a query 1999-01-09 23:16:55 +00:00
devel Swig 1.1p5 1999-01-14 05:00:25 +00:00
distfiles Explain what goes here. 1997-12-17 09:25:18 +00:00
editors Use "ncurses" because "vim" doesn't work with our "termlib". 1999-01-10 22:29:38 +00:00
emulators reflect update of unzip to 5.40 1998-12-28 13:46:12 +00:00
fonts/Xg Add NetBSD RCS Ids. 1998-08-07 13:27:33 +00:00
games Enable xskat. 1999-01-07 00:38:26 +00:00
graphics Major cleanup of "netpbm" package based on patches supply by 1999-01-10 23:52:15 +00:00
japanese Initial import of new japanese category, and it's very first pkg, 1998-10-28 18:12:10 +00:00
lang Update f2c to 19980913. Provided in pr 6804 by Dan McMahill. 1999-01-14 13:56:04 +00:00
mail make the sample lines for inetd.conf reflect the actual location where the 1999-01-14 01:50:33 +00:00
math Reflect update of f2c. 1999-01-14 13:57:04 +00:00
mbone Replace outdated homepage with new one. 1999-01-08 00:24:18 +00:00
meta-pkgs Update DEPENDS on glimpse to 4.1. 1998-12-03 12:41:57 +00:00
misc Add LDFLAGS+=-Wl,-R${X11BASE}/lib to make it work on ELF. 1999-01-07 15:34:54 +00:00
mk If applying a patch fails, tell which patch failed. 1999-01-09 20:52:30 +00:00
net Get rid of obsolete chown(8) operand usage. 1999-01-09 20:49:26 +00:00
news Update to 19981225. 1999-01-06 18:04:19 +00:00
packages Explain what goes here. 1997-12-17 09:25:18 +00:00
parallel update PLIST to reflect reality, and add a trick to determine if we have 1999-01-01 23:42:58 +00:00
pkgtools Bump version of PKGNAME to 1.67 to indicate that there are changes since 1998-11-26 14:23:47 +00:00
plan9 pkglint: move NOT_FOR_ARCHS where it belongs. 1998-11-13 01:35:55 +00:00
print Make gs work on ELF too. 1999-01-04 21:44:47 +00:00
security Add patch that fixes bus error caused by alignment failures on NetBSD/Sparc. 1999-01-05 14:31:01 +00:00
shells Use WRKSRC definition to keep pkglint happy. 1998-11-13 12:31:15 +00:00
sysutils Updated to skill-3.7.7. The author included my patch to avoid 1999-01-05 19:12:00 +00:00
templates Packages.txt moved. 1998-08-23 01:32:19 +00:00
textproc Get rid of obsolete chown(8) operand usage. 1999-01-09 20:49:26 +00:00
www p5-HTML-Parser is in pkgsrc/www, not pkgsrc/libwww. 1999-01-13 02:56:11 +00:00
x11 Remove bogus mirror site. 1999-01-14 08:18:42 +00:00
Makefile Enable new japanese category, and document addition of category, and 1998-10-28 18:16:50 +00:00
Packages.txt Document how to import new packages. 1998-12-19 20:35:47 +00:00
README Minor mods to clean up the English. 1998-09-01 11:03:23 +00:00

$NetBSD: README,v 1.8 1998/09/01 11:03:23 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 && 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".

+ 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.

+ 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 pksrc/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.

For more information on the packages collection see the file
Packages.txt in this directory.