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salo 4953cd65af Update to version 2.4.
Based on a PR pkg/20825 by Hiramatsu Yoshifumi, modified by me.

- follow PKG_SYSCONFDIR

List of major changes for this release:

  * Regular Expressions Phase 1
    ICU 2.4 introduces a Regular Expression C++ API that is modeled after
    the JDK 1.4 API. ICU 2.4's Regular Expression API supports Unicode
    level 1 regular expressions (see Unicode Regular Expression
    Guidelines) but not all pattern metacharacters and features are
    supported yet. Regular expressions leverage all of the UnicodeSet
    support, including all Unicode 3.2 property names and property value
    names. Future ICU releases will complete the pattern support, add
    support for higher Unicode regex levels, and improve performance. For
    more details see the API References and the User Guide.
  * Modularized ICU library building
    ICU 2.4 provides build-time switches to prune parts of the library
    code, for smaller custom distributions. For details see the readme
    file.
  * Character set alias management support
    Additional APIs map alias+standard to a unique charset name (e.g.,
    "Shift-JIS"+"IANA"->"ibm-943_P14A-2000") and enumerate all charset
    names in the alias table, not just the installed ones. See
    convrtrs.txt and ucnv.h.
    These APIs allow programmers to avoid data corruption problems when
    different platforms use the same names for different character
    conversion mappings.
  * EBCDIC-z/OS converter option
    The EBCDIC converter now handles swapped LF/NL mappings
    algorithmically instead of with modified .ucm/.cnv conversion table
    files. This makes this behavior available for all supported EBCDIC
    conversions without adding to the data package size. See "swaplfnl" in
    convrtrs.txt.
  * Additional converter
    A new converter implementation has been added for the encoding of IMAP
    mailbox names. See RFC 2060/5.1.3. Mailbox International Naming
    Convention and "IMAP-mailbox-name" in convrtrs.txt.
  * Customizable break iteration
    ICU 2.4 allows registration of a BreakIterator with a locale ID. This
    allows applications to provide more sophisticated word/sentence break
    engines and use them seamlessly with the ICU APIs. In future releases,
    this registration mechanism will be extended to all relevant ICU
    services. If you are interested in ICU customization, please try out
    this feature.
  * Collation performance
    ICU 2.4 collation was improved in several areas, with an emphasis on
    performance:
       * Latin-1: Improved performance of u_strcoll().
       * Russian/Cyrillic: Improved performance by tailoring collation for
         cyrillic-script languages, removing UCA contractions that are not
         used for modern Russian (this uses the [suppressContractions]
         tailoring option).
       * Korean: Improved performance by resolving collation elements for
         modern Hangul syllables at build time (this uses the [optimize]
         tailoring option).
       * Japanese: The default strength for Japanese was reduced from
         quaternary to tertiary as in all other locales.
  * UnicodeSet performance
    UnicodeSet performance is significantly improved, especially for
    add(codePoint) and contains(codePoint).
  * Unicode property aliases ICU 2.4 introduces APIs for mapping between
    all appropriate Unicode property aliases and property value aliases
    and ICU property enumeration constants. See u_getPropertyName() etc.
    in uchar.h.
  * Unicode string functions
       * There are new C functions for searching for last occurrences of
         characters and partial strings. See u_strrstr(), u_strrchr32()
         etc.
       * New C/C++/Java functions for efficient checking if a string
         contains more than a certain number of code points. See
         hasMoreChar32Than().
       * Copying UnicodeStrings via the standard assignment operator and
         copy constructor does not preserve readonly aliasing any more
         because this can sometimes have unexpected and dangerous effects.
         A new fastCopyFrom() member function provides the old copy
         semantics. See Jitterbug 1794 for more details.
  * UTF macros simplified
    The low-level C macros for handling code points in 8-bit and 16-bit
    Unicode strings have been replaced by a simpler, more consistent set
    with more concise names. For details see utf_old.h and utf.h.
    Similarly, ICU 2.4 defines the UChar32 consistently (now always as
    int32_t) and adds a U_SENTINEL non-code point value for new APIs.
  * Performance tests
    ICU 2.4 has a new performance test framework and additional
    performance tests using this framework. This is not currently
    documented, but it is available as part of the source distribution at
    source/test/perf/.
2003-03-21 23:44:05 +00:00
archivers Make this compile on Irix with the MIPSPro compiler by removing gcc-only 2003-03-18 21:53:29 +00:00
audio Fix HOMEPAGE. From Juan RP in PR 20815. 2003-03-20 06:47:10 +00:00
benchmarks Add/enable skampi 2003-03-19 17:25:10 +00:00
biology Use new IMAKE_MAN_PATH variables in PLISTs to make these packages more 2003-02-25 03:34:57 +00:00
cad update to gerbv-0.13 2003-03-21 03:43:21 +00:00
chat Updated to version 0.9.13. 2003-03-17 20:12:47 +00:00
comms Update to scmxx-0.6.3.6; changes include: 2003-03-16 10:21:03 +00:00
converters Update p5-Jcode pacakge to 0.83. 2003-03-16 16:37:05 +00:00
cross (1) Publicly export the value of _OPSYS_RPATH_NAME as RPATH_FLAG; 2003-03-14 19:37:30 +00:00
databases Hmmm... for some reason the PKGREVISION bump was not commited... 2003-03-20 15:26:06 +00:00
devel Add and enable z80-asm. 2003-03-20 19:35:23 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
doc Note libdvdcss-1.2.6nb1 update. 2003-03-21 23:25:35 +00:00
editors Set the proper owner/group for installed files. Pointed out by Toru 2003-03-19 08:58:36 +00:00
emulators Update xmess to 0.66.2. 2003-03-20 19:03:27 +00:00
finance Not in distinfo; jschauma says it should be removed. 2003-03-02 21:06:13 +00:00
fonts Fixed a shameful typo in the package's revision number which prevents it 2003-03-21 17:43:09 +00:00
games Add and enable ccgo 2003-03-16 03:57:40 +00:00
graphics fix two bugs in freetype-config that prevent it from working outside 2003-03-21 22:25:50 +00:00
ham Make this compile on -current 2003-02-05 09:58:04 +00:00
inputmethod Use new IMAKE_MAN_PATH variables in PLISTs to make these packages more 2003-03-02 20:18:50 +00:00
lang Use smlnj's Makefile.common for platform support checks. 2003-03-21 22:57:34 +00:00
licenses Add the JFC binary code license agreement (for x11/swing). 2003-01-29 20:23:39 +00:00
mail Honor PKG_SYSCONFDIR, as requested in PR pkg/19289 by Thomas T. Thai. 2003-03-21 17:31:36 +00:00
math Use CFLAGS as well. Set GAP_PLATFORM in a way to account for other CC variables. 2003-03-20 22:39:33 +00:00
mbone s/INSTALL_*/BSD_INSTALL_*/ in patch-ad, remove unnecessary MAKE_ENV. 2003-01-19 07:13:49 +00:00
meta-pkgs Add dependancy on the new wmmemmon package. Bump version to 1.1. 2003-03-09 10:57:36 +00:00
misc Update to 1.2.6nb1: include a patch from Christopher Richards, sent in 2003-03-21 23:25:00 +00:00
mk when there are no build depends, indicate this with "none" instead of 2003-03-21 12:49:58 +00:00
net make this work with SOAPpy-0.9.8 and bumb PKGREVISION because it 2003-03-19 11:55:10 +00:00
news It appears that on Linux the dlopen and friends functions require -ldl. 2003-03-15 00:00:42 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel Quote tr arguments. From Jim Bernard in PR 20826. 2003-03-20 23:34:36 +00:00
pkgtools Sync with main sources: 2003-03-16 19:44:09 +00:00
print fredb has fixed cups so it works now with blowfish cipher in the passwd file. 2003-03-20 18:49:33 +00:00
security * Add patch from http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20030317.txt: 2003-03-21 18:40:48 +00:00
shells (1) Publicly export the value of _OPSYS_RPATH_NAME as RPATH_FLAG; 2003-03-14 19:37:30 +00:00
sysutils lib/charset.alias belongs to the libiconv package. 2003-03-21 23:36:46 +00:00
templates Fix the location of DESCR for the readme files 2001-11-03 03:26:08 +00:00
textproc Update to version 2.4. 2003-03-21 23:44:05 +00:00
time (1) Publicly export the value of _OPSYS_RPATH_NAME as RPATH_FLAG; 2003-03-14 19:37:30 +00:00
wm (1) Publicly export the value of _OPSYS_RPATH_NAME as RPATH_FLAG; 2003-03-14 19:37:30 +00:00
www Update to 0.7.1.2. There are lots of new features, including plugin 2003-03-21 18:15:28 +00:00
x11 Add header files invented by latest QT 3.x version. 2003-03-19 17:29:50 +00:00
Makefile s/${ENV}/${SETENV}/, noted by Kevin P. Neal in connection with PR 19586. 2003-02-09 14:38:51 +00:00
Packages.txt Note how USE_NCURSES should be used. 2003-02-23 10:45:39 +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

$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.