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rh 8e41206ce4 Initial import of gnome-pixmaps-1.4.2, a set of pixmaps for the upcoming
gnome-core-1.4.2.

Since pkgsrc does not support file reference counts, this is an initial
step to split out files which are common for GNOME1 and GNOME2, in order
to allow them to co-exist.
2002-09-14 02:37:39 +00:00
archivers Standardize. 2002-09-12 17:05:15 +00:00
audio Standardize. 2002-09-12 17:05:15 +00:00
benchmarks Standardize. 2002-09-12 17:05:15 +00:00
biology Standardize. 2002-09-12 17:05:15 +00:00
cad Update eagle to 4.09r2. Changes include some device additions to the 2002-09-13 21:35:17 +00:00
chat * Prefix PKGNAME with "xemacs-" if the package is for XEmacs. 2002-09-14 02:19:29 +00:00
comms Use ghostscript.mk. 2002-09-13 06:53:31 +00:00
converters Use ghostscript.mk. 2002-09-13 06:53:31 +00:00
cross Standardize. 2002-09-12 17:12:36 +00:00
databases Default to slapd=NO if it's not defined. 2002-09-12 10:19:11 +00:00
devel Use ghostscript.mk. 2002-09-13 06:53:31 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
editors This patch is no longer needed for buildlink2. 2002-09-14 00:11:22 +00:00
emulators Add ld.so.hints file, as requested in pkg/18145. 2002-09-09 19:03:40 +00:00
finance Remove a site that doesn't contain current distfiles. 2002-09-10 18:30:43 +00:00
fonts Depend on ghostscript. 2002-09-13 22:49:44 +00:00
games Update to 0.0.5, converted to buildlink2. 2002-09-12 13:30:28 +00:00
graphics Initial import of gnome-pixmaps-1.4.2, a set of pixmaps for the upcoming 2002-09-14 02:37:39 +00:00
ham Add RCS Id. 2002-07-02 12:53:10 +00:00
inputmethod Since the major of libiconv was increased during the update to 1.8, 2002-09-10 16:06:32 +00:00
lang use PKGNAME_NOREV as DIST_SUBDIR 2002-09-11 18:46:31 +00:00
licenses Add TRPlayer license, in support of soon-to-be-imported TRPlayer package. 2002-08-31 19:51:17 +00:00
mail Depends on cyrus-sasl with its version. 2002-09-11 15:50:58 +00:00
math Since the major of libiconv was increased during the update to 1.8, 2002-09-10 16:06:32 +00:00
mbone Make this package build on NetBSD-1.6 and later 2002-08-16 16:55:59 +00:00
meta-pkgs Use ghostscript.mk. 2002-09-13 06:53:31 +00:00
misc Since the major of libiconv was increased during the update to 1.8, 2002-09-10 16:06:32 +00:00
mk * Prefix PKGNAME with "xemacs-" if the package is for XEmacs. 2002-09-14 02:19:29 +00:00
net add missing item (libbind9) 2002-09-13 09:48:48 +00:00
news Since the major of libiconv was increased during the update to 1.8, 2002-09-10 16:06:32 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel Since the major of libiconv was increased during the update to 1.8, 2002-09-10 16:06:32 +00:00
pkgtools Updated pkgchk to 1.32: 2002-09-13 11:45:03 +00:00
print ghostscript-nox11 needs g++ to compile the hpijs driver. Also use egrep 2002-09-13 23:13:27 +00:00
security The shared libraries are installed on Solaris now. 2002-09-09 22:17:00 +00:00
shells Merge packages from the buildlink2 branch back into the main trunk that 2002-08-25 21:50:52 +00:00
sysutils Clean up the fix for the missing bufq_state so that builds on older 2002-09-13 16:55:14 +00:00
templates Fix the location of DESCR for the readme files 2001-11-03 03:26:08 +00:00
textproc Use ghostscript.mk. 2002-09-13 06:53:31 +00:00
time Use buildlink2. 2002-09-01 18:58:52 +00:00
wm Update to 2.4.1. Lots of changes and bug fixes. 2002-09-10 17:17:08 +00:00
www Use USE_PERL5=build instead of directly depending on perl. 2002-09-13 23:42:27 +00:00
x11 Use the "Official Pthreads Replacement" in kdenetwork2. 2002-09-13 06:59:37 +00:00
Makefile Retire japanese category. 2002-05-31 15:26:50 +00:00
Packages.txt PKG_SYSCONFDIR is not supposed to be settable, so change its setting from 2002-08-26 05:17:39 +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 Kill the ghostscript item. 2002-09-13 07:00:57 +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.