Automatic conversion of the NetBSD pkgsrc CVS module, use with care
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mrg 65ea1f6846 update to bozohttpd 20021106. changes:
o  add .bz2 support
	o  properly escape <, > and & in error messages, partly from
	   Nicolas Jombart <ecu@mariejeanne.net>
	o  new -H flag to hide .* files in directory index mode
	o  fix buffer reallocation when parsing a request, to avoid
	   overflowing the buffer with carriage returns (\r)
	o  do not decode "%XY"-style cgi-bin data beyond the "?"
2002-11-06 11:03:28 +00:00
archivers buildlink1 -> buildlink2 2002-11-01 08:48:26 +00:00
audio Mark as using X11. 2002-11-03 23:05:26 +00:00
benchmarks Convert to buildlink2. 2002-09-30 15:00:32 +00:00
biology Use buildlink2. Use perl5/module.mk. 2002-10-27 22:51:06 +00:00
cad add and enable tkgate 2002-10-29 00:35:02 +00:00
chat fix /usr/local paths in man page. 2002-11-06 00:59:30 +00:00
comms On Solaris iconv() is in libc. 2002-10-30 10:16:44 +00:00
converters Make sure libwmf is found. Bump PKGREVISION. 2002-11-04 19:20:10 +00:00
cross Fix build error when devel/autoheader is not installed. 2002-10-16 05:11:00 +00:00
databases - make this work with apache2 2002-11-05 07:33:13 +00:00
devel Make this build on 1.6 at least. 2002-11-06 06:52:00 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
doc tin-1.4.6 update. 2002-11-06 10:57:16 +00:00
editors Add and enable gedit 2002-11-03 08:53:16 +00:00
emulators Update the DELQA module to beta5. Changes: 2002-11-06 08:37:46 +00:00
finance Use buildlink2. Use perl5/module.mk. 2002-10-27 20:48:55 +00:00
fonts Update to monafont-2.21 (2002/6/23). 2002-10-31 13:57:48 +00:00
games Depend on latest kde1 package. 2002-11-04 23:27:18 +00:00
graphics Add buildlink2.mk. Closes PR 18918. 2002-11-06 10:27:24 +00:00
ham Complete standardization of messages according to latest pkglint. 2002-09-24 12:29:55 +00:00
inputmethod Unused. 2002-10-25 17:13:49 +00:00
lang Depend on latest gdbm and bump PKGREVISION (major bump in gdbm library). 2002-11-01 16:34:34 +00:00
licenses Add a license for freshly imported /devel/pvs. Also available online 2002-09-24 17:58:32 +00:00
mail - make this work with apache2 2002-11-05 07:33:13 +00:00
math - make this work with apache2 2002-11-05 07:33:13 +00:00
mbone Add configure patch to remove autoconf dependency. 2002-10-02 22:47:35 +00:00
meta-pkgs Convert to buildlink2 (untested). 2002-10-05 11:26:35 +00:00
misc - make this work with apache2 2002-11-05 07:33:13 +00:00
mk Actually pass CVS_FLAGS propperly to the su'd "cvs update" 2002-11-03 22:59:21 +00:00
net Fix bad target directory in installation target so that "ipv6logconv" 2002-11-05 10:57:53 +00:00
news Unneeded. 2002-11-06 10:39:08 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel if to elif 2002-10-29 20:30:49 +00:00
pkgtools Update to 0.107: Do not exit when pkgdiff fails on one file, just report 2002-11-04 23:07:37 +00:00
print Set USE_X11 (needed because of gimp-base dependency). 2002-11-03 23:14:15 +00:00
security - make this work with apache2 2002-11-05 07:33:13 +00:00
shells Sync with tcsh package. Fixes PR 18861. 2002-10-31 11:55:30 +00:00
sysutils update to 1.1.7 2002-10-29 16:50:14 +00:00
templates Fix the location of DESCR for the readme files 2001-11-03 03:26:08 +00:00
textproc Upon approval by Martti Kuparinen downgrade the "libxml2" package to 2002-11-06 07:56:51 +00:00
time Need -lsocket on solaris 2002-10-27 13:40:30 +00:00
wm Updated fvwm2 to 2.4.13 2002-11-03 09:01:03 +00:00
www update to bozohttpd 20021106. changes: 2002-11-06 11:03:28 +00:00
x11 Add USE_X11 so this works with xpkgwedge. 2002-11-05 07:59:31 +00:00
Makefile Some whitespace cleanup. 2002-09-24 13:59:20 +00:00
Packages.txt Mention pkgsrc/mk/auto{conf,make}.mk in section 6.4 and fix examples. 2002-11-04 13:00:51 +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.