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archivers Add a catch-all for SunOS to force using the pkgsrc versions of the 2002-08-07 19:29:29 +00:00
audio Allow this package to depend on either compat14 or compat14-crypto. 2002-08-13 03:18:02 +00:00
benchmarks add missing header file. fixes recently noted compilation problems on 2002-08-09 02:01:55 +00:00
biology Small pkglint white-space complaint. 2002-06-07 11:34:40 +00:00
cad Change explicit build dependencies on perl into "USE_PERL5=build". This 2002-07-24 19:45:22 +00:00
chat on systems with ecgs, use the gcc package to avoid a c++ compiler bug. 2002-08-09 03:01:24 +00:00
comms These packages install libraries that differ from previous versions if they 2002-08-08 16:17:04 +00:00
converters Remove (partly obsolete) homepage URLs from DESCR. 2002-08-15 09:39:18 +00:00
cross Change MAINTAINER from tv at netbsd dot org to packages at netbsd dot org 2002-08-01 02:37:41 +00:00
databases Make a shared libcgi as rrdtool wants to link it into a DSO. 2002-08-10 13:59:33 +00:00
devel Remove version number from DESCR. 2002-08-15 09:35:31 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
editors Try to fix bulk build failure, and add a missing file to PLIST. 2002-08-07 12:04:34 +00:00
emulators Make the package compile for ${MACHINE_ARCH} != "i386". 2002-08-15 00:16:35 +00:00
finance Adapt to using perl-5.8.0. Perl 5.8.0 removes the need for libperl as 2002-07-22 22:00:49 +00:00
fonts Fix build problem on system without "xpkgwedge" installed. 2002-08-12 20:15:37 +00:00
games Fix C++ sloppiness to make this build with g++ 2.95.3. 2002-08-14 16:18:40 +00:00
graphics Sync with mplayer's DESCR. 2002-08-13 12:39:49 +00:00
ham Add RCS Id. 2002-07-02 12:53:10 +00:00
inputmethod Create the Freewnn user and group in this package - they default to 2002-08-12 09:44:15 +00:00
lang add patch which got left out of previous commit (why??? I _know_ it was listed 2002-08-13 01:58:57 +00:00
licenses Add Sun Community Source License, Version 3.0 Jini Technology Specific 2002-05-31 20:29:31 +00:00
mail Remove (partly obsolete) homepage URLs from DESCR. 2002-08-15 09:39:18 +00:00
math Fix oversight in last commit. 2002-08-12 19:45:37 +00:00
mbone Make this package compile on 1.6. 2002-08-13 08:33:09 +00:00
meta-pkgs Make last change less intrusive: build "gnumeric" version 1.0.0 or newer 2002-08-12 19:00:36 +00:00
misc Remove (partly obsolete) homepage URLs from DESCR. 2002-08-15 09:39:18 +00:00
mk Document `IMAP_UW_NO_SSL'. 2002-08-15 00:34:04 +00:00
net Remove (partly obsolete) homepage URLs from DESCR. 2002-08-15 09:39:18 +00:00
news enable generation of message-ID and use of msg-id-cache. 2002-08-04 15:06:56 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel avoid installing a .orig file. Fixes a leftover file found in last bulk build 2002-08-08 09:40:38 +00:00
pkgtools Make patchdiff following package's PATCHDIR setting: useful when dealing with 2002-08-14 16:30:06 +00:00
print decrease optimization level on a handful of files to make this compile 2002-08-11 02:34:26 +00:00
security Remove (partly obsolete) homepage URLs from DESCR. 2002-08-15 09:39:18 +00:00
shells Zsh 4.0.6. 2002-08-15 06:54:54 +00:00
sysutils mark as only for i386 as it uses i386 assembly code to find the speed 2002-08-12 00:32:27 +00:00
templates Fix the location of DESCR for the readme files 2001-11-03 03:26:08 +00:00
textproc Add RCS Id. 2002-08-13 10:49:05 +00:00
time Move time management related Perl5 packages to category "time". 2002-07-05 06:58:25 +00:00
wm add missing patch (forgot to cvs add). Thanks Thomas! 2002-08-11 13:15:26 +00:00
www Remove (partly obsolete) homepage URLs from DESCR. 2002-08-15 09:39:18 +00:00
x11 update checksum for patch-bt 2002-08-15 09:28:14 +00:00
Makefile Retire japanese category. 2002-05-31 15:26:50 +00:00
Packages.txt Remove the setting of BATCH=yes and DEPENDS_TARGET=bulk-install from 2002-08-12 14:23:47 +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.