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archivers Use ${LOCALBASE}/bin/unzip rather than a bare unzip. 2002-11-10 23:17:20 +00:00
audio typo fix 2002-11-11 19:50:57 +00:00
benchmarks Use buildlink2. 2002-11-11 00:54:28 +00:00
biology Use buildlink2. Use perl5/module.mk. 2002-10-27 22:51:06 +00:00
cad add buildlink2.mk file in preparation for some coming pkgs which need it 2002-11-10 01:57:48 +00:00
chat Control k already *has* a perfectly good meaning, so instead of 2002-11-06 19:18:59 +00:00
comms On Solaris iconv() is in libc. 2002-10-30 10:16:44 +00:00
converters Make sure libwmf is found. Bump PKGREVISION. 2002-11-04 19:20:10 +00:00
cross Fix build error when devel/autoheader is not installed. 2002-10-16 05:11:00 +00:00
databases Update edb to 1.0.3. Changes are bugfixes only. 2002-11-08 23:23:10 +00:00
devel update cook to version 2.21. trolling the changelogs gives: 2002-11-11 06:17:54 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
doc Note audio/Speex-0.99.3, net/dctc-0.83.8, and net/dc_gui-0.65 updates. 2002-11-11 14:03:11 +00:00
editors fix MAINTAINER= Name <email> to only include email address. 2002-11-10 00:35:07 +00:00
emulators Bump to 0.9.1nb1: install more documentation. 2002-11-09 14:12:26 +00:00
finance Use buildlink2. Use perl5/module.mk. 2002-10-27 20:48:55 +00:00
fonts Remove first paragraph, now redundant with the message automaticly 2002-11-08 15:51:25 +00:00
games install the manual pages as well. bump to nb1. 2002-11-08 11:24:25 +00:00
graphics Fix depends line. 2002-11-11 21:28:27 +00:00
ham Complete standardization of messages according to latest pkglint. 2002-09-24 12:29:55 +00:00
inputmethod Unused. 2002-10-25 17:13:49 +00:00
lang update to latest oynx release, 4.1.0. changes to oynx language are: 2002-11-11 11:10:41 +00:00
licenses Add a license for freshly imported /devel/pvs. Also available online 2002-09-24 17:58:32 +00:00
mail Update to 0.63. From the changelog: 2002-11-11 05:28:07 +00:00
math fix MAINTAINER= Name <email> to only include email address. 2002-11-10 00:35:07 +00:00
mbone Add configure patch to remove autoconf dependency. 2002-10-02 22:47:35 +00:00
meta-pkgs Convert to buildlink2 (untested). 2002-10-05 11:26:35 +00:00
misc fix MAINTAINER= Name <email> to only include email address. 2002-11-10 00:35:07 +00:00
mk rename BINPKG_SITE to BINPKG_SITES 2002-11-10 18:20:44 +00:00
net Update to 0.65. Changes: 2002-11-11 14:01:32 +00:00
news Unneeded. 2002-11-06 10:39:08 +00:00
packages
parallel Update parallel/pvm3 to pvm-3.4.4 2002-11-09 15:24:24 +00:00
pkgtools Add pkgdepgraph 2002-11-07 23:18:37 +00:00
print Use ${LOCALBASE}/bin/texconfig rather than bare texconfig. 2002-11-10 23:18:47 +00:00
security - make this work with apache2 2002-11-05 07:33:13 +00:00
shells Sync with tcsh package. Fixes PR 18861. 2002-10-31 11:55:30 +00:00
sysutils Make this LKM load again under NetBSD 1.6K and newer. The patch was 2002-11-10 07:59:02 +00:00
templates Fix the location of DESCR for the readme files 2001-11-03 03:26:08 +00:00
textproc As pointed out on the website: 2002-11-11 20:07:33 +00:00
time Categories are space-separated, not comma-separated. 2002-11-09 00:39:58 +00:00
wm Update fluxbox to 0.1.12; closes PR #18930 2002-11-10 19:36:57 +00:00
www Update to 2.1pre7, sole change: Regenerated font_include.c to comply with 2002-11-11 12:19:47 +00:00
x11 COMMENT should be set in Makefile, not any common Makefile parts. 2002-11-09 13:43:48 +00:00
Makefile Some whitespace cleanup. 2002-09-24 13:59:20 +00:00
Packages.txt Fix typo reported by Julio Merino in PR 18967. 2002-11-08 09:29:14 +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.