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heinz 827b142e37 Maintenance update to 2.44
Parts of patch-ag and patch-ah as well as complete patch-aa could be
removed again, they are now included in SA 2.44 (see below).

#### official release announcement ###############

This is a bug-fix release, which fixes the following bugs:

  - Backport fix for Bug 1306: Possible buffer overflow in libspamc when
    running in BSMTP mode (patch 1.15 -> 1.18)

  - Backport workaround from Bug 526: Failed sanity check because of
    clobbered STDOUT (patch 1.147 -> 1.148)

  - Backport fix for Debian Bug 160206: Insufficient buffer in libspamc
    (patch 1.8 -> 1.9)

  - Backport fix for warnings in sed_path (patch 1.141 -> 1.142)

  - Backport fix for Bug 1127: Existing lowercase x-spam-status header
    kills SpamAssassin (patch 1.40 -> 1.41)

  - localized %ENV to fix problem where Razor2 erases the PATH so DCC
    and
    pyzor don't work, etc.

Note that this is *not* 2.50, which offers Bayesian filtering etc. These
bugs are already fixed in the 2.50 CVS tree, but that is not yet ready for
release.  This is a stable maintainance release only.
2003-02-02 19:38:39 +00:00
archivers Remove dependancy on gnome1-dirs as discussed with wiz. This will be handled by gnome-libs. 2003-01-27 19:46:59 +00:00
audio Update sweep to 0.8.0. Changes in this version: 2003-01-30 23:09:06 +00:00
benchmarks Instead of including bsd.pkg.install.mk directly in a package Makefile, 2003-01-28 22:03:00 +00:00
biology Fix thinko, /usr -> ${PREFIX}. 2002-12-01 20:25:39 +00:00
cad Update to atlc-4.2.10 2003-02-01 15:16:24 +00:00
chat If there's a system header <sys/queue.h>, don't use the one that's bundled 2003-02-01 10:09:36 +00:00
comms Sort, then match the reality. 2003-01-29 05:58:50 +00:00
converters Update from 2.12 to 2.16. 2003-01-09 15:49:17 +00:00
cross Replace "true" by "${TRUE}". 2002-12-09 16:01:10 +00:00
databases Updated to p5-perl-ldap-0.2701 2003-01-31 11:14:46 +00:00
devel Don't use -nodefaultlibs when linking C libraries - this was for old broken 2003-01-31 20:33:51 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
doc ICU is now at version 2.4 2003-02-02 19:21:03 +00:00
editors Make TeXmacs locate guile at runtime by setting the PATH accordingly. 2003-01-30 00:08:57 +00:00
emulators Update to 0.64rc1. 2003-01-30 14:08:32 +00:00
finance Fix build after the guile 1.4/1.6 split by properly using the pkgsrc 2003-01-24 04:28:52 +00:00
fonts Instead of including bsd.pkg.install.mk directly in a package Makefile, 2003-01-28 22:03:00 +00:00
games Instead of including bsd.pkg.install.mk directly in a package Makefile, 2003-01-28 22:03:00 +00:00
graphics Added and enabled dvdbackup 2003-02-02 14:51:14 +00:00
ham USE_PKGLOCALEDIR. 2002-12-01 14:37:12 +00:00
inputmethod Instead of including bsd.pkg.install.mk directly in a package Makefile, 2003-01-28 22:03:00 +00:00
lang The default location for the JVMs is ${LOCALBASE}/java/sun-1.4. 2003-01-31 07:39:40 +00:00
licenses Add the JFC binary code license agreement (for x11/swing). 2003-01-29 20:23:39 +00:00
mail Maintenance update to 2.44 2003-02-02 19:38:39 +00:00
math Instead of including bsd.pkg.install.mk directly in a package Makefile, 2003-01-28 22:03:00 +00:00
mbone s/INSTALL_*/BSD_INSTALL_*/ in patch-ad, remove unnecessary MAKE_ENV. 2003-01-19 07:13:49 +00:00
meta-pkgs Fix typo: >= instead of > for pan dependency 2003-01-17 02:30:45 +00:00
misc Instead of including bsd.pkg.install.mk directly in a package Makefile, 2003-01-28 22:03:00 +00:00
mk Use a table-based lookup scheme to pair up JREs to JDKs. 2003-01-29 20:52:01 +00:00
net Update to version 2.6.4. 2003-01-31 17:01:57 +00:00
news Depend on gnome2-dirs to handle shared directories. Bump PKGREVISION. 2003-01-29 12:27:01 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel The lib/pkgconfig has been added to the list of standard directories, so do 2003-01-02 22:44:43 +00:00
pkgtools Remove old ftp site from comment (noted by Tilman Linneweh). 2003-02-01 13:37:33 +00:00
print Switch distinfo back. If only I could market what I must have been smoking. 2003-01-29 13:04:43 +00:00
security Add and enable "libgcrypt". 2003-02-02 17:28:51 +00:00
shells Instead of including bsd.pkg.install.mk directly in a package Makefile, 2003-01-28 22:03:00 +00:00
sysutils Update dvdrecord to 0.1.3nb1 2003-01-31 11:02:28 +00:00
templates Fix the location of DESCR for the readme files 2001-11-03 03:26:08 +00:00
textproc Update to 0.25. This closes my own PR pkg/18891. Changes since 0.18: 2003-02-01 16:08:15 +00:00
time Use "Australia/Sydney" instead of "Australia/Queensland" for the 2003-01-30 22:37:25 +00:00
wm There is no reason to install into X11PREFIX, follow the white PREFIX. 2003-01-30 14:27:47 +00:00
www bump PKGREVISION after fixing a critical bug, as suggested by wiz 2003-02-02 13:44:51 +00:00
x11 Fix PR 20090. 2003-01-31 11:43:32 +00:00
Makefile Switch the top level pkgsrc 'readme' and 'cdrom-readme' targets to use the 2003-01-05 13:37:15 +00:00
Packages.txt - fix a typo. 2003-01-29 08:50:11 +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.