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archivers Clean out my pkgsrc diffs: 2001-10-31 14:44:42 +00:00
audio Added gkrellm-xmms 2001-10-30 13:32:47 +00:00
benchmarks As this script is called directly by the package Makefile, move it out 2001-10-26 12:54:24 +00:00
biology Deprecate NO_WRKSUBDIR, replacing it with an explicit assignment of: 2001-09-09 20:36:07 +00:00
cad I am a triple idiot. The only relevant variable that x11.buildlink.mk 2001-10-24 22:10:43 +00:00
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converters update to 1.7 2001-10-30 17:41:19 +00:00
cross Sync with PEACE repositry. 2001-10-21 12:24:15 +00:00
databases The ndbm code was preprocessed out of the sources because the symbol defined 2001-10-27 21:31:32 +00:00
devel Fix COMMENT, per PR 14395 by Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com> 2001-10-29 19:58:43 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
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emulators Move a one-liner post-extract script to be a standard package Makefile 2001-10-25 21:04:32 +00:00
finance Added gkrellm-stock and p5-finance-quote 2001-10-30 13:35:48 +00:00
fonts Update SHA1 sum of jiskan16-2000-1.bdf.gz and jiskan16-2000-2.bdf.gz. 2001-10-25 16:47:29 +00:00
games Note addition of bridge-hands-2.0 in games/bridge-hands. 2001-10-28 08:07:29 +00:00
graphics Back out inadvertent change that set freetype-dir for the configure 2001-10-29 17:08:35 +00:00
ham Updated to tfkiss-1.2.4: 2001-09-09 08:16:22 +00:00
japanese use of dependency such as `package-name>=[0-9]*:../../category/package-name' 2001-10-31 01:41:03 +00:00
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licenses VMWare license in preparation for the package in emulators/vmware. 2001-07-07 14:24:21 +00:00
mail Adviced by sen_ml@eccosys.com. 2001-10-31 08:07:14 +00:00
math use PLIST_SUBST instead of sed, as suggested by Thomas Klausner 2001-10-29 16:34:40 +00:00
mbone Deprecate NO_WRKSUBDIR, replacing it with an explicit assignment of: 2001-09-09 20:36:07 +00:00
meta-pkgs jadetex was renamed to tex-jadetex 2001-10-04 18:50:29 +00:00
misc Rewrite ${SED} & ${ECHO} hacks, and rename target from do-configure to 2001-10-31 08:10:54 +00:00
mk Make REPLACE_PERL work -- recent "-e s,/bin/perl,${PERL5}" addition broke it. 2001-10-31 18:05:48 +00:00
net Refer to ${LOCALBASE}, not ${PREFIX} in post-install target. 2001-10-31 17:05:59 +00:00
news I am a triple idiot. The only relevant variable that x11.buildlink.mk 2001-10-24 22:10:43 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel Move the post-patch custom script into the package Makefile. 2001-10-26 14:37:56 +00:00
pkgtools o store pkgdir files (PLIST, DESCR and other) in . by default, 2001-10-31 18:45:42 +00:00
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security Changelog for version 3.21, 2001.10.31, urgency: MEDIUM: 2001-10-31 10:00:23 +00:00
shells Don't compress the manual pages of this package because "zshall.1" tries 2001-10-05 16:36:00 +00:00
sysutils o use REPLACE_PERL 2001-10-31 18:11:25 +00:00
templates Note how to report problems, or send updates or suggestions. 2001-03-19 17:44:30 +00:00
textproc Clean out my pkgsrc diffs: 2001-10-31 14:39:19 +00:00
time I am a triple idiot. The only relevant variable that x11.buildlink.mk 2001-10-24 22:10:43 +00:00
wm Remove distinfo and note the reasons why it doesn't exist in the Makefiles. 2001-10-30 09:49:31 +00:00
www Correct package names by adding '4' before the '-', and add 2001-10-30 13:56:55 +00:00
x11 Follow the recent API change in APM_IOC_GETPOWER, fixing pkg/14403. 2001-10-31 01:44:36 +00:00
Makefile Use better expressions for grep, to avoid tagging non-IPv6 enabled packages 2001-07-17 13:11:51 +00:00
Packages.txt Missing semicolons between commands in automake example. 2001-10-31 04:24:16 +00:00
pkglocate Update the usage message to explain what each option letter does. 2001-04-03 09:28:32 +00:00
README update a bit 2001-06-06 19:41:05 +00:00
TODO Added the gnome Nautilus file manager to be made into a pkg 2001-10-30 14:17:19 +00:00

$NetBSD: README,v 1.12 2001/06/06 19:41:05 hubertf 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 file in the same place where you found this README,
usually in the top-level pkgsrc dir.
directory.