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archivers Add and enable zip1 (PKZIP 1.x compatible zip), with encryption support. 1998-06-20 23:27:48 +00:00
audio Remove unnecessary "USE_X11= yes". 1998-06-20 14:03:12 +00:00
benchmarks Make packages which use NetBSD's bsd.man.mk work with automatic manual 1998-06-20 09:20:38 +00:00
cad Update package Makefile for automatic man page handling. 1998-06-20 09:22:43 +00:00
comms Apply fix to the real source of the problem. 1998-06-20 21:24:09 +00:00
converters Update package Makefiles for automatic manual page handling. 1998-06-20 09:26:31 +00:00
databases Upgrade to the latest and greatest version (6.3.2) of PostgreSQL. 1998-06-10 13:55:34 +00:00
devel Remove unnecessary "USE_X11= yes". 1998-06-20 14:03:12 +00:00
distfiles Explain what goes here. 1997-12-17 09:25:18 +00:00
editors Add "USE_X11" as suggested by Tim Rightnour in PR pkg/5619. 1998-06-20 14:38:16 +00:00
emulators "wine" builds fine with our "make". 1998-06-19 23:20:16 +00:00
fonts/Xg %D not needed on @dirrm 1998-05-08 17:25:36 +00:00
games Add and enable mirrormagic. 1998-06-12 13:44:28 +00:00
graphics Automanpage handling. 1998-06-21 01:29:26 +00:00
lang Update to 19980608, and add option to make use of the "bootstrap" 1998-06-15 19:06:23 +00:00
mail Allow the use of the tab key to peruse folders other than just the 1998-06-18 16:14:58 +00:00
math Replace "BUILD_DEPENDS" and "RUN_DEPENDS" by "DEPENDS". 1998-05-04 19:38:44 +00:00
mbone Upgrade sdr to 2.4a7 (with the TU Dresden Multimedia Reference Center bug 1998-06-18 10:45:54 +00:00
misc Automanpage handling. 1998-06-21 02:22:17 +00:00
mk Add ZIP_ENCRYPTION option for zip, zip1, and unzip pkgs. 1998-06-20 23:28:24 +00:00
net Make packages which use NetBSD's bsd.man.mk work with automatic manual 1998-06-20 09:20:38 +00:00
news Enable nntpcache. 1998-06-06 15:31:17 +00:00
packages Explain what goes here. 1997-12-17 09:25:18 +00:00
plan9 use absolute path 1998-05-09 17:23:04 +00:00
print Update to version 1.6.0. 1998-06-17 20:59:19 +00:00
security On request by mrg build "ssh" with "--disable-suid-ssh" by default. This 1998-06-19 17:16:32 +00:00
shells Automanpage handling. 1998-06-21 02:35:53 +00:00
sysutils Fix typo in patch. 1998-06-12 19:43:59 +00:00
templates s/Klick/Click/, as per cgd 1998-06-01 21:15:27 +00:00
textproc Fix "${MASTER_SITES}", problem pointed out by Bernd Ernesti. 1998-06-20 21:39:58 +00:00
www Remove unnecessary "USE_X11= yes". 1998-06-20 14:03:12 +00:00
x11 No need to process "PLIST" with "sed", let "install-info" create 1998-06-20 23:17:31 +00:00
Makefile Comment out SUBDIR+=ai, since we don't have it yet. 1998-05-17 13:30:41 +00:00
Packages.txt Update the documentation to reflect the automatic manual page handling 1998-06-18 15:12:22 +00:00
README Note existence of pkgsrc/mk/mk.conf.example for customization. 1998-04-30 20:58:13 +00:00

$NetBSD: README,v 1.5 1998/04/30 20:58:13 frueauf 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 weekly into a tar_file: 

	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 && 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".

+ 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.

+ To find out what variables exists to customize some behaviour of
pkgsrc (e.g. where it installs to) have a look at
pkgsrc/mk/mk.conf.example. You can set those in /etc/mk.conf.

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 something like Mozilla
(pkgsrc/www/mozilla), or Communicator.

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 pksrc/INDEX which can be watched 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.

See:

	http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/netbsd/Packages.txt

for more information on the packages collection.