Automatic conversion of the NetBSD pkgsrc CVS module, use with care
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2001-04-20 13:52:07 +00:00
archivers Move to sha1 digests, and add distfile sizes. 2001-04-18 11:21:02 +00:00
audio Move madplay to mad. 2001-04-19 10:28:21 +00:00
benchmarks Move to sha1 digests, and add distfile sizes. 2001-04-20 09:13:22 +00:00
biology move to sha digest, and add distfile size. 2001-04-19 16:12:32 +00:00
cad Move to sha1 digests, and add distfile sizes. 2001-04-20 08:55:26 +00:00
chat Move to sha1 distfile digests, and add distfile sizes. 2001-04-18 11:07:14 +00:00
comms Move to sha1 digests, and add distfile sizes. 2001-04-20 08:55:26 +00:00
converters Move to sha1 digests, and add distfile sizes. 2001-04-18 16:28:00 +00:00
cross + move the distfile digest/checksum value from files/md5 to distinfo 2001-04-17 10:33:37 +00:00
databases Add an INFO_FILES entry. 2001-04-18 17:28:26 +00:00
devel Actually, the CONFLICTs should be against libtool<=1.3.5nb11, not <. 2001-04-20 00:07:29 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
editors Fix usage of common distfile. 2001-04-19 13:55:17 +00:00
emulators Move to sha1 digests, and add distfile sizes. 2001-04-20 10:49:52 +00:00
finance Move to sha1 digests, and add distfile sizes 2001-04-18 13:44:01 +00:00
fonts fixed some installation/deinstallation problem. 2001-04-19 16:09:29 +00:00
games Don't try to use CE, just call clrtoeol() instead. Fixes build problems 2001-04-18 12:20:38 +00:00
graphics Build libx2sys before the x2sys executables. 2001-04-19 21:36:30 +00:00
ham Move to sha1 digests, and add distfile sizes. 2001-04-18 13:47:17 +00:00
japanese make makesum makepatchsum 2001-04-18 00:36:03 +00:00
lang add distfile sizes 2001-04-19 15:28:38 +00:00
licenses Remove some spaces at eol which made it weird to read in 80 columns. 2001-03-16 14:37:23 +00:00
mail Move to sha1 digests, and add distfile sizes. 2001-04-20 13:09:54 +00:00
math fix one more instance of __alpha__ being used as a test for OSF. 2001-04-19 15:10:35 +00:00
mbone Move to sha1 digests, and add distfile sizes. 2001-04-18 14:24:33 +00:00
meta-pkgs Update to new COMMENT style: COMMENT var in Makefile instead of pkg/COMMENT. 2001-02-17 17:52:59 +00:00
misc Move to sha1 digests, and add distfile sizes. 2001-04-20 13:52:07 +00:00
mk Handle freetype2 package like the MesaLib package as it is bundled with 2001-04-19 19:11:59 +00:00
net fix on alpha. 2001-04-18 19:01:55 +00:00
news Move to sha1 digests, and add distfile sizes. 2001-04-19 13:37:53 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel Move to sha1 digests, and add distfile sizes. 2001-04-18 15:22:45 +00:00
pkgtools DISTINFO_FILE, not DIGEST_FILE; fixes some 'missing distinfo file' warnings. 2001-04-19 13:25:41 +00:00
print Move to sha1 digest, and add distfile size. 2001-04-20 13:06:31 +00:00
security Move to sha1 digests, add distfile sizes. 2001-04-19 15:40:29 +00:00
shells move to sha1 digests, and add distfile sizes. 2001-04-18 14:53:31 +00:00
sysutils Move to sha1 digests, and add distfile sizes. 2001-04-19 11:28:57 +00:00
templates Note how to report problems, or send updates or suggestions. 2001-03-19 17:44:30 +00:00
textproc Updated dependency: Xalan-C-1.0 only works with Xerces-C-1.3.x 2001-04-19 20:02:32 +00:00
time Move to sha1 digests, and add distfile sizes. 2001-04-18 14:47:10 +00:00
wm Fix shared distinfo file for wmx-current and wmx-gnome-current. 2001-04-19 15:32:51 +00:00
www Regen. 2001-04-20 12:43:38 +00:00
x11 The source on the master site has changed. 2001-04-19 11:39:31 +00:00
Makefile echo -> ${ECHO} 2001-02-27 20:23:59 +00:00
Packages.txt Update for the distinfo changes. 2001-04-17 12:50:04 +00:00
pkglocate Update the usage message to explain what each option letter does. 2001-04-03 09:28:32 +00:00
README No paragraph (picking nits). 2000-07-23 18:02:33 +00:00

$NetBSD: README,v 1.11 2000/07/23 18:02:33 fredb 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 where you found this README, or in your top-level pkgsrc
directory.