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archivers fix installation of LC_MESSAGES message catalog file. 2000-12-19 04:36:55 +00:00
audio USE_X11 -> USE_X11BASE 2000-12-19 12:08:32 +00:00
benchmarks Update to 1.13 - no list of changes available. 2000-12-14 05:08:04 +00:00
biology Add and enable "chemtool". Fixes PR pkg/11377 by Jason Beegan. 2000-11-25 20:14:30 +00:00
cad Make sure that libraries can be found. Pick up in bulk build output. 2000-12-21 18:17:09 +00:00
chat Update to gaim-0.11.0pre3 2000-12-23 10:55:51 +00:00
comms Add and enable p5-Device-SerialPort 2000-12-18 23:19:19 +00:00
converters Fix bug in wvText reported by Per Amund Amundsen in pkg/11722. 2000-12-16 00:31:41 +00:00
cross Fix installation. Closes pkg/11690. 2000-12-16 00:53:31 +00:00
databases Only install the postgresql modules, and not the setup module. 2000-12-22 18:42:54 +00:00
devel Updated kdevelop to 1.3 2000-12-19 14:17:27 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
editors emacs and mule install files with the same name in info -- make 2000-12-16 13:56:40 +00:00
emulators No patches -> dummy patch-sum file. 2000-12-21 12:36:08 +00:00
finance Add dependency on libxml. 2000-12-17 12:00:42 +00:00
fonts Remove k12x10 and k6x10, since they aren't installed anymore. 2000-12-15 22:59:44 +00:00
games Remove obsolete MIRROR_DISTFILE (we're allowed to distribute the unmodified 2000-12-24 01:59:52 +00:00
graphics Update to 2.0.1. Changes: Not beta anymore, many bug fixes, some headers 2000-12-24 02:27:41 +00:00
ham sort 2000-10-24 10:13:35 +00:00
japanese Don't pass `bsd44' to configure. It's no longer supported/needed. 2000-12-18 08:28:06 +00:00
lang Move HTML documentation to under share/doc/html. 2000-12-19 09:24:17 +00:00
mail As imap-uw was recently updated to provide SSL support, programs which link 2000-12-18 18:09:11 +00:00
math Added an option to install for XEmacs instead of GNU Emacs. 2000-12-13 23:51:34 +00:00
mbone add and enable common-mml 2000-12-21 12:37:59 +00:00
meta-pkgs Move x11/ascp, x11/econf, and x11/wmextra to wm. 2000-12-18 13:54:38 +00:00
misc Update MASTER_SITES 2000-12-22 16:29:37 +00:00
mk make the pruning of distfiles be controlled by a build.conf setting. 2000-12-22 01:35:33 +00:00
net Update to 1.6. Changes: 2000-12-21 04:27:07 +00:00
news Unify Makefiles -- mostly headers: remove FreeBSD Ids. 2000-12-12 01:30:36 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel remove trailing whitespace 2000-10-21 22:52:37 +00:00
pkgtools pkg_install-20001220 update. 2000-12-20 04:02:45 +00:00
print Update cups to 1.1.5.1. Changes from version 1.1.5 are only fixes to the 2000-12-21 16:59:31 +00:00
security Update to dat-4112 2000-12-21 17:47:10 +00:00
shells Unify Makefiles -- mostly headers: remove FreeBSD Ids. 2000-12-12 01:30:36 +00:00
sysutils Okay, _really_ get the version checking done right. 2000-12-22 20:19:10 +00:00
templates Change substitution of %%PKG%% so it's expanded to ${PKGNAME} directly, not 2000-11-09 23:46:29 +00:00
textproc Fix the broken symlink in lib/icu/1.7 2000-12-23 09:39:20 +00:00
time Make this pass pkglint, create ${PREFIX}/libexec/cgi-bin if it doesn't 2000-12-22 19:00:17 +00:00
wm Update MASTER_SITES 2000-12-22 16:29:37 +00:00
www Make the INSTALL/DEINSTALL scripts handle configuration files like 2000-12-22 19:41:52 +00:00
x11 Update lesstif and lesstif12 to version 0.92.6. Make me the maintainer 2000-12-22 17:26:18 +00:00
Makefile Move lots of packages to new time category; fix links; add time subcategory 2000-12-17 23:40:53 +00:00
Packages.txt Note that ssh doesn't need to be installed in /etc/rc.conf on 1.5 systems. 2000-12-17 23:32:39 +00:00
pkglocate fix to really exit if glimpse is not installed 2000-04-11 16:59:17 +00:00
README No paragraph (picking nits). 2000-07-23 18:02:33 +00:00

$NetBSD: README,v 1.11 2000/07/23 18:02:33 fredb 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/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 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 where you found this README, or in your top-level pkgsrc
directory.