Automatic conversion of the NetBSD pkgsrc CVS module, use with care
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Changes since 1.11.1p1:
* The "log" and "rlog" commands now have a -S option to suppress the
header information when no revisions are selected.
* A serious error that allowed read-only users to tag files has been
corrected.
* The "annotate" command will no longer annotate binary files unless
you specify the new -F option.
* The "tag" and "rtag" commands will no longer move or delete branch
tags unless you use the new -B option. (This prevents accidental
changes to branch tags that are hard to undo.)
* We've standardized on the 1.5 Automake release for the moment. Again, this
should only really affect developers. See the section of the INSTALL file
about using the autotools if you are compiling CVS yourself.
Changes from 1.11.1 to 1.11.1p1:
* Read only access was broken - now fixed.
Changes from 1.11 to 1.11.1:
* The "cvs diff" command now accepts the -y/--side=by-side and -T/
--initial-tab options. (To use these options with a remote repository,
both the client and the server must support them.)
* The expansion of the loginfo format string has changed slightly.
Previously, the expansion was surrounded by single quotes ('); if a file
name contained a single quote character, the string would not be parsed
as a single entity by the Unix shell (and it would not be possible to
parse it unambiguously). Now the expansion is surrounded by double
quotes (") and any embedded dollar signs ($), backticks (`), backslashes
(\), and double quotes are preceded by a backslash. This is parsed as a
single entity by the shell reguardless of content. This change should
not be noticable unless you're not using a Unix shell or you have
embedded the format string inside a double quoted string.
* There was a bug in the diff code which sometimes caused conflicts to
be flagged which shouldn't have been. This has been fixed.
* New "cvs rlog" and "cvs rannotate" commands have been added to get log
messages and annotations without having to have a checked-out copy.
* Exclusive revision ranges have been added to "cvs log" using ::
(similar to "cvs admin -o").
* The VMS client now accepts wildcards if you're running VMS 7.x.
* ZLIB has been updated to version 1.1.3, the most current version. This
includes mostly some optimizations and minor bug fixes.
* The ~/.cvspass file has a slightly modified format. CVSROOTs are now
stored in a new canonical form - hostnames are now case insensitive and
port numbers are always stored in the new format. Until a new login for
a particular CVSROOT is performed with the new version of CVS, new and
old versions of CVS should interoperate invisibly. After that point, an
extra login using the old version of CVS may be necessary to continue to
allow the new and old versions of CVS to interoperate using the same
~/.cvspass file and CVSROOT. The exception to this rule occurs when the
CVSROOTs used with the different versions use case insensitively
different hostnames, for example, "empress", and "empress.2-wit.com".
* A password and a port number may now be specified in CVSROOT for
pserver connections. The new format is:
:pserver:[[user][:password]@]host[:[port]]/path
Note that passwords specified in a checkout command will be saved in the
clear in the CVS/Root file in each created directory, so this is not
recommended, except perhaps when accessing anonymous repositories or the
like.
* The distribution has been converted to use Automake. This shouldn't
affect most users except to ease some portability concerns, but if you
are building from the repository and encounter problems with the
makefiles, you might try running ./noautomake.sh after a fresh update
-AC.
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| cad | ||
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| cross | ||
| databases | ||
| devel | ||
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| misc | ||
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| packages | ||
| parallel | ||
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| Packages.txt | ||
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| README | ||
$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.