Automatic conversion of the NetBSD pkgsrc CVS module, use with care
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archivers Add RCS Id. 2002-07-02 12:40:13 +00:00
audio Use gkrellm buildlink.mk, should fix i386 bulk build failure. 2002-07-13 15:38:41 +00:00
benchmarks Show usertime/systime/realtime/cpu-time-percentage. 2002-07-11 23:32:34 +00:00
biology Small pkglint white-space complaint. 2002-06-07 11:34:40 +00:00
cad in the config script that comes with magic, check for /usr/libexec/cpp 2002-07-14 03:47:46 +00:00
chat Add and enable iroffer 2002-07-14 09:28:03 +00:00
comms Update to kermit 8.0.201, and add the minor version to the pkg name. 2002-07-12 19:08:10 +00:00
converters Add and enable ru-d1489 2002-07-12 21:02:31 +00:00
cross add and enable h8300-hms-binutils and h8300-hms-gcc 2002-06-27 22:32:55 +00:00
databases Update to 2.1017, based on pkg/17295 by Sergey Svishchev. 2002-07-07 12:34:49 +00:00
devel Oops. This patch update was a local thing. 2002-07-15 15:57:02 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
editors add and enable cooledit 2002-07-07 19:46:21 +00:00
emulators Add USB joystick support (and bump version to 1.39nb1) using (somewhat 2002-07-14 07:44:43 +00:00
finance Give all packages which depend on "png" a version bump, and update 2002-03-13 17:36:35 +00:00
fonts Depends mkfontscale>=20020524. 2002-07-15 11:05:32 +00:00
games Add sound support, as proposed in pkg/13899 by rxg. 2002-07-15 09:01:42 +00:00
graphics Add i386 platform. Bump PKGREVISION. This closes PR pkg/17598 by 2002-07-14 22:50:33 +00:00
ham Add RCS Id. 2002-07-02 12:53:10 +00:00
inputmethod fix jserverrc installation probrem (lib -> server-bin). 2002-06-20 08:55:50 +00:00
lang echo -> ${ECHO} 2002-07-14 13:05:23 +00:00
licenses Add Sun Community Source License, Version 3.0 Jini Technology Specific 2002-05-31 20:29:31 +00:00
mail Use "distinfo" of "fetchmail" package. 2002-07-13 21:48:29 +00:00
math Add libunicode buildlink. Remove references to LOCALBASE. 2002-07-15 14:47:13 +00:00
mbone Move pkg/ files into package's toplevel directory 2001-10-31 20:59:00 +00:00
meta-pkgs Standardize descriptions a bit. 2002-07-11 19:44:27 +00:00
misc Add and enable kanjipad. 2002-07-14 10:06:38 +00:00
mk Add missing LN to PLIST_SUBST 2002-07-13 23:27:54 +00:00
net Prepend ${.CURDIR} to some paths. 2002-07-15 14:41:51 +00:00
news Upgrade to 6.6.4, which does not depend on an external inews program anymore. 2002-07-08 02:21:18 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel Deprecate IS_INTERACTIVE 2002-07-02 11:39:46 +00:00
pkgtools Pkgcvsupdate had been decommissioned. 2002-07-15 09:22:48 +00:00
print Add and enable bg5pdf. 2002-07-12 20:15:16 +00:00
security Add a pointer to Steve Bellovin's mail in 2002-07-15 11:32:17 +00:00
shells Small fix to the texi file which allows the info file to be built on 1.6. 2002-06-22 10:18:24 +00:00
sysutils Add buildlink.mk. 2002-07-13 15:38:15 +00:00
templates Fix the location of DESCR for the readme files 2001-11-03 03:26:08 +00:00
textproc Remove RCS Id. 2002-07-15 08:10:39 +00:00
time Move time management related Perl5 packages to category "time". 2002-07-05 06:58:25 +00:00
wm Add RCS Id. 2002-07-02 13:01:52 +00:00
www Eliminate the BUILDLINK_DEPENDS.libwww exception, and bump 2002-07-15 14:46:15 +00:00
x11 Add IDL includes to buildlinked files 2002-07-14 01:11:42 +00:00
Makefile Retire japanese category. 2002-05-31 15:26:50 +00:00
Packages.txt fix typo 2002-07-04 13:42:11 +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
TODO Add one more TODO item -- a version of the graphics/gd package which does 2002-05-20 22:07:09 +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.