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kim 4aa4e4e683 Make this work with 1.4K, and split out patch-aa into patch-ac as well
so that each patch works on a single source file.
1999-09-12 16:50:41 +00:00
archivers Record build options in the BuildInfo file via BUILD_DEFS. These can be 1999-08-18 09:20:00 +00:00
audio new homepage & master site. 1999-09-07 03:14:22 +00:00
benchmarks Use ${LOWER_OPSYS} instead of 1999-09-06 04:48:53 +00:00
biology Add and enable fastDNAml 1999-07-28 20:20:39 +00:00
cad Update dependency on guile to 1.3.2. 1999-08-29 21:50:20 +00:00
comms Some cleanup: 1999-09-07 14:49:42 +00:00
converters Add and enable base64. 1999-08-16 18:19:16 +00:00
corba Update dependency to glib-1.2.4 1999-08-28 09:41:07 +00:00
cross upgrade zoularis to 19990830 1999-08-30 05:22:00 +00:00
databases Updated to OpenLDAP-1.2.7 release. 1999-09-10 10:41:39 +00:00
devel Regen. 1999-09-10 20:39:06 +00:00
distfiles Explain what goes here. 1997-12-17 09:25:18 +00:00
editors Add and enable abiword. 1999-09-11 18:28:49 +00:00
emulators Provide an error message if an attempt is made to build this package 1999-08-27 15:28:46 +00:00
fonts Fix sub directory on GNU master sites. 1999-09-11 09:35:00 +00:00
games Regen. 1999-09-12 00:20:54 +00:00
graphics update to tgif-4.1.17 from tgif-4.1.16 1999-09-12 15:59:40 +00:00
ham Add IS_INTERACTIVE=yes because this package really is. 1999-09-06 21:42:44 +00:00
japanese Remove ${SED} -e .... ${PLIST_TMP} > ${PLIST_SRC} 1999-09-08 09:29:46 +00:00
lang libperl uses the packages from the perl package. 1999-09-10 02:38:48 +00:00
mail Remove "-" from package version - noted by Hubert Feyrer. 1999-09-12 01:37:05 +00:00
math Add missing dependency on python to BUILD_DEPENDS. 1999-09-10 15:39:34 +00:00
mbone ELF rpath issues. 1999-07-27 08:56:39 +00:00
meta-pkgs Update stale dependencies on rxvt and mutt. 1999-08-30 09:15:29 +00:00
misc Make this work with 1.4K, and split out patch-aa into patch-ac as well 1999-09-12 16:50:41 +00:00
mk bump PKGTOOLS_REQD to 19990909 - DEINSTALL fix 1999-09-09 02:01:21 +00:00
net Add and enable snort. 1999-09-10 15:48:44 +00:00
news Fix egcs warning--sprintf() needs to #include <stdio.h>. 1999-08-25 11:22:15 +00:00
packages Explain what goes here. 1997-12-17 09:25:18 +00:00
parallel Add package patch checksum files. 1999-07-09 14:09:02 +00:00
pkgtools Don't recomment using MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR, recomment the new way instead. 1999-09-09 20:21:17 +00:00
plan9 Make this package work on Solaris. 1999-08-24 19:01:43 +00:00
print LPRng 3.6.6: An Enhanced Printer Spooler. From FreeBSD ports collection. 1999-09-11 21:58:30 +00:00
security this builds fine without user interaction 1999-09-08 22:18:04 +00:00
shells Be a bit more general when configuring this package on Solaris. 1999-08-17 16:11:27 +00:00
sysutils Add and enable cpogm. 1999-09-12 15:33:25 +00:00
templates flush table headings left, noted by Ross Harvey 1999-08-23 22:02:27 +00:00
textproc Update libxml to 1.6.1. 1999-09-03 07:12:45 +00:00
www Be more specific about which version of Netscape to download. 1999-09-07 15:21:39 +00:00
x11 Fix sub directory on GNU master sites. 1999-09-11 09:35:00 +00:00
Makefile only mv README-all.html aside if it exists 1999-08-23 21:37:28 +00:00
Packages.txt Add note about our policy of handling user-supplied binary packages. 1999-09-12 01:40:02 +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.