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archivers Add and enable "cxunzip". 2002-05-25 02:43:39 +00:00
audio Initial import of an arts-1.0.1 package. (Nearly forgot) 2002-05-31 15:02:58 +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 getcwd() instead of getwd(). 2002-05-31 19:56:19 +00:00
chat Add & enable lmme. 2002-05-31 10:21:14 +00:00
comms The name of the socks4 static library is "libsocks4.a" not "libsocks.a", 2002-05-25 19:24:00 +00:00
converters Add & enable newly reimported packages from the japanese category. 2002-05-31 15:02:40 +00:00
cross use lang/gcc on sparc on older systems. fixes build problems on 1.5 systems 2002-06-01 01:59:10 +00:00
databases regen (no patch-aa here) 2002-05-21 11:16:36 +00:00
devel Updated to 1.12. Submitted by Kevin Lo <kevlo@kevlo.org> in pkg/16986. 2002-05-31 09:52:05 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
editors Mark as conflicting with nvi package from editors/nvi. 2002-05-31 16:06:04 +00:00
emulators Adjust various pathnames to use newly reimported packages from the japanese 2002-05-31 15:19:55 +00:00
finance Give all packages which depend on "png" a version bump, and update 2002-03-13 17:36:35 +00:00
fonts Update to 20020524. 2002-05-31 15:33:07 +00:00
games Adjust various pathnames to use newly reimported packages from the japanese 2002-05-31 15:19:55 +00:00
graphics Adjust various pathnames to use newly reimported packages from the japanese 2002-05-31 15:19:55 +00:00
ham prdownloads.sourceforge.net is no longer any use. 2002-05-12 10:16:44 +00:00
inputmethod Add & enable newly reimported packages from the japanese category: 2002-05-31 14:14:16 +00:00
lang Add & enable newly reimported packages from the japanese category. 2002-05-31 15:02:40 +00:00
licenses Add Sun Community Source License, Version 3.0 Jini Technology Specific 2002-05-31 20:29:31 +00:00
mail Adjust various pathnames to use newly reimported packages from the japanese 2002-05-31 15:19:55 +00:00
math use lang/gcc on arm32. Makes this compile and work on shark. 2002-05-25 18:47:24 +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 add and enable misc/molden package. 2002-05-31 19:18:37 +00:00
mk On Darwin, before including <bsd.own.mk>, set OBJECT_FMT to "Mach-O". 2002-05-30 22:15:40 +00:00
net pkglint(1) 2002-06-01 08:14:43 +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 update to cdpack-1.4.1. 2002-05-22 22:30:43 +00:00
print Adjust various pathnames to use newly reimported packages from the japanese 2002-05-31 15:19:55 +00:00
security Update virus definitions to version "4204" 2002-05-28 14:19:36 +00:00
shells Imagine my surprise when this failed to build on my -current shark. 2002-04-11 15:26:19 +00:00
sysutils add BUILD_USES_MSGFMT. fixes build/packaging problem noted recently on sparc 2002-05-30 18:45:00 +00:00
templates Fix the location of DESCR for the readme files 2001-11-03 03:26:08 +00:00
textproc Add & enable newly reimported packages from the japanese category. 2002-05-31 15:02:40 +00:00
time Add NetBSD tags. 2002-05-20 18:19:41 +00:00
wm add BUILD_USES_MSGFMT. fixes build/packaging problem noted recently on sparc 2002-05-31 00:53:09 +00:00
www Adjust various pathnames to use newly reimported packages from the japanese 2002-05-31 15:19:55 +00:00
x11 Add & enable newly reimported packages from the japanese category. 2002-05-31 15:02:40 +00:00
Makefile Retire japanese category. 2002-05-31 15:26:50 +00:00
Packages.txt Explain why we prefer "cvs import" for new packages, paraphrased from agc. 2002-05-30 22:55:21 +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.