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zuntum 41f0f6e663 Initial import of dbz-ttf-20020507
This is a collection of TrueType fonts which be created for fun. You can
use them for free to do anything you want, you just can't take the fonts
and resell them (on a CD, for instance). Read the readme.txt if you're not
sure what this means.

Fixes pkg/16960 by rxg@netbsd.org
2002-05-22 13:09:41 +00:00
archivers Add patch-aa 2002-05-10 10:01:31 +00:00
audio add & enable oggasm 2002-05-22 12:31:59 +00:00
benchmarks Fix a typo. 2002-04-17 21:54:46 +00:00
biology Add NetBSD tags. 2002-05-20 17:25:43 +00:00
cad use MAGIC_HOME instead of CAD_HOME as the environment variable which 2002-05-18 23:18:43 +00:00
chat Update to 1.4, and update my email address. Changes: 2002-05-12 15:40:15 +00:00
comms Update scmxx to 0.6.1.1; changes since previous include: 2002-05-20 21:54:18 +00:00
converters Add some more charsets to the alias file (see previous revision). 2002-05-14 15:57:55 +00:00
cross fix typo 2002-05-18 15:00:06 +00:00
databases regen (no patch-aa here) 2002-05-21 11:16:36 +00:00
devel Make libtool work on Darwin, based on the patches in pkg/16104 by 2002-05-21 14:03:36 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
editors Add NetBSD tags. 2002-05-20 17:41:05 +00:00
emulators On arm32, turn off optimization so that this package builds. 2002-05-20 13:14:19 +00:00
finance Give all packages which depend on "png" a version bump, and update 2002-03-13 17:36:35 +00:00
fonts Initial import of dbz-ttf-20020507 2002-05-22 13:09:41 +00:00
games regen (no patch-ag here -- forgot to commit?) 2002-05-21 11:17:29 +00:00
graphics We need to include the gnome-print buildlink.mk for this to compile. 2002-05-21 20:39:20 +00:00
ham prdownloads.sourceforge.net is no longer any use. 2002-05-12 10:16:44 +00:00
japanese Fix typo reported by KAWAKUBO Hiroshi in pkg/16777. 2002-05-12 15:53:07 +00:00
lang MAINTAINER= jschauma@netbsd.org, I guess. 2002-05-21 14:01:32 +00:00
licenses Mention ms-ttf-license in the list of ACCEPTABLE_LICENCES. 2002-03-06 17:05:30 +00:00
mail Add DRAC support (requested in pkg/16797), use more buildlink files, 2002-05-20 14:06:43 +00:00
math turn off optimization on one particular fortran file. Fixes a crashing 2002-05-22 10:37:04 +00:00
mbone Move pkg/ files into package's toplevel directory 2001-10-31 20:59:00 +00:00
meta-pkgs Add and enable fxtv-capture. 2002-05-14 00:52:15 +00:00
misc Use openpty(3) to allocate a new pty under NetBSD. This fixes PR pkg/16901 2002-05-21 17:57:03 +00:00
mk Bump LIBTOOL_REQD (libtool support for Darwin). 2002-05-21 14:06:15 +00:00
net Add an explicit dependency on wget to get this package to build. 2002-05-21 21:05:36 +00:00
news Remove version number from text, and fmt(1). 2002-05-15 14:31:23 +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 Convert ${PORTNAME} to ${PKGNAME}, from YAMAMOTO Takashi in pkg/16772. 2002-05-19 15:41:36 +00:00
print At a note to the dependencies section, at the suggestion of agc, to warn 2002-05-20 14:04:43 +00:00
security Initialize a variable to make it compile with gcc 2.95.3. Closes pkg/15832. 2002-05-20 15:22:00 +00:00
shells Imagine my surprise when this failed to build on my -current shark. 2002-04-11 15:26:19 +00:00
sysutils regen 2002-05-18 15:00:42 +00:00
templates Fix the location of DESCR for the readme files 2001-11-03 03:26:08 +00:00
textproc Fix NetBSD tag. 2002-05-20 19:16:34 +00:00
time Add NetBSD tags. 2002-05-20 18:19:41 +00:00
wm Use buildlink.mk's instead of DEPENDS. Proposed in pkg/16807 as a fix 2002-05-16 16:58:05 +00:00
www Remove $Id$ from patch, and add $NetBSD$. 2002-05-21 12:04:42 +00:00
x11 add & enable acidlaunch 2002-05-22 12:59:50 +00:00
Makefile replace some leading spaces with leading tabs. 2001-12-17 02:33:46 +00:00
Packages.txt Add missing verb. 2002-05-19 08:52:17 +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 Add one more TODO item -- a version of the graphics/gd package which does 2002-05-20 22:07:09 +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.