pkgsrc/bootstrap
jperkin ac8fbf323d Add support for --prefer-pkgsrc which will set PREFER_PKGSRC in the bootstrap
and target mk.conf.  Primarily useful to ensure pkgsrc zlib/bzip2 etc are used
for pkg_install.
2012-07-26 13:00:48 +00:00
..
bootstrap Add support for --prefer-pkgsrc which will set PREFER_PKGSRC in the bootstrap 2012-07-26 13:00:48 +00:00
cleanup
macpkg.pmproj.in
README Minor corrections, from Snader_LB on FreeNode: 2012-01-11 01:15:17 +00:00
README.AIX
README.FreeBSD Update information with my experience. Thanks to <riz> for reminding. 2010-12-02 17:12:39 +00:00
README.Haiku Update status of upstream Issue#5784. 2010-09-30 12:01:09 +00:00
README.HPUX
README.Interix Minor corrections, from Snader_LB on FreeNode: 2012-01-11 01:15:17 +00:00
README.IRIX
README.IRIX5.3
README.Linux
README.MacOSX Minor corrections, from Snader_LB on FreeNode: 2012-01-11 01:15:17 +00:00
README.MirBSD Add support for MirBSD to pkgsrc. Patches from Benny Siegert and 2011-01-23 19:07:24 +00:00
README.OpenBSD
README.OSF1
README.Solaris Support GCCBASE in bootstrap, and provide a working example based on OmniOS. 2012-07-13 16:12:41 +00:00
testbootstrap Drop --ignore-case-check option from bootstrap script. 2011-06-12 08:28:32 +00:00

$NetBSD: README,v 1.12 2012/01/11 01:15:17 riz Exp $

To try to get pkgsrc working on your system, please try the following
as root:

# ./bootstrap
    [ --workdir <workdir> ]
    [ --prefix <prefix> ]
    [ --pkgdbdir <pkgdbdir> ]
    [ --sysconfdir <sysconfdir> ]
    [ --varbase <varbase> ]
    [ --ignore-case-check ]
    [ --ignore-user-check ]
    [ --preserve-path ]
    [ --help ]

The defaults for the arguments are as follows:

	--prefix	/usr/pkg
	--pkgdbdir	/var/db/pkg
	--sysconfdir	/usr/pkg/etc
	--varbase	/var
	--workdir	work

It is perfectly acceptable to place 'pkgdbdir' under 'prefix'.

The working directory will be created if it doesn't exist and has to be
writable by the user executing ./bootstrap.

Make sure that you have a working C compiler and make(1) binary in
your path.  Please note that on some systems (IRIX and SunOS, for example),
the bootstrap script will look into a number of common directories for
alternative implementations of some tools.  If they are found, these
directories will be prepended to the PATH variable, unless the
'--preserve-path' flag is given.

See pkgsrc/doc/pkgsrc.txt or
http://www.NetBSD.org/docs/software/packages.html for
more information about bootstrapping and using pkgsrc.

We'd be very interested in hearing of any successes or failures on
"unknown" (to us) systems.

Please remember to add $prefix/bin to your PATH environment variable
and $prefix/man to your MANPATH environment variable, if necessary.
(See above for --prefix and its default value.)

The bootstrap script will create an example mk.conf file located
in your work directory as "mk.conf.example". It contains the
settings you provided to the bootstrap. Copy it to your
$sysconfdir directory (see above about --sysconfdir and its default
value). If the default mk.conf doesn't already exist, the example is
copied into place.