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wiz 94717ac3db Update to 7.0.1, per pkg/13864 from Ingolf Steinbach.
Changes since 7.0:
By popular demand, made file selection in the main canvas conform more to
the Shift-click-adds-range and Ctrl-click-adds-single model.
Made the CDE parameter thing more bullet-proof.  It shouldn't fail if
something is missing now.
After a module import, it renames the original directory and checks out
into a fresh one.  Otherwise, the checkout isn't recursive and you get a
lot of "independently added by a second party" messages.
Commented out the tkwaits that were causing the commit and merge dialogs
to disappear in some window managers.  Unfortunately they may have to
be un-commented back on some systems, especially Mandrake, which seems to
exhibit timing problems sometimes.
If a file's log message had a line containing only "=" characters, the
logcanvas browser would drop all the revisions that came after it.  It will
still do it if there are exactly 77 equal signs, but not otherwise.
2001-09-14 22:24:16 +00:00
archivers Fix the config file location references in the man pages, noted in 2001-09-14 18:47:16 +00:00
audio Fix xpkgwedge problems noted by John Darrow <John.P.Darrow@wheaton.edu> in 2001-09-14 03:34:44 +00:00
benchmarks Deprecate NO_WRKSUBDIR, replacing it with an explicit assignment of: 2001-09-09 20:36:07 +00:00
biology Deprecate NO_WRKSUBDIR, replacing it with an explicit assignment of: 2001-09-09 20:36:07 +00:00
cad Use x11.buildlink.mk instead of USE_X11. 2001-09-12 02:27:55 +00:00
chat Patch for Solaris from Michael Santos (pkg/13685). 2001-09-14 15:23:45 +00:00
comms Deprecate NO_WRKSUBDIR, replacing it with an explicit assignment of: 2001-09-09 20:36:07 +00:00
converters Add p5-Text-Iconv-1.1 - Perl interface to iconv() codeset conversion function 2001-09-14 18:21:52 +00:00
cross Deprecate NO_WRKSUBDIR, replacing it with an explicit assignment of: 2001-09-09 20:36:07 +00:00
databases Convert to use buildlink.mk files and mark as USE_BUILDLINK_ONLY. 2001-09-14 02:39:07 +00:00
devel Update to 7.0.1, per pkg/13864 from Ingolf Steinbach. 2001-09-14 22:24:16 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
editors regen (in the hope it fixes pkg/13909) 2001-09-14 15:09:39 +00:00
emulators Update to 0.57, based on pkg/13849 by Hiramatsu Yoshifumi. 2001-09-14 22:18:22 +00:00
finance Use mk/motif.buildlink.mk instead of lesstif/buildlink.mk. 2001-09-08 19:55:39 +00:00
fonts correct checksum. PR 13910 2001-09-10 07:30:18 +00:00
games Update to 18.10, as requested in pkg/13795. 2001-09-14 22:09:45 +00:00
graphics Fix the rpath so that ${LOCALBASE}/lib (where the graphics libraries are 2001-09-14 05:41:05 +00:00
ham Updated to tfkiss-1.2.4: 2001-09-09 08:16:22 +00:00
japanese Back out changes to explicitly add ${CHASENDIR} to the compiler search 2001-09-12 19:06:45 +00:00
lang Install ${PREFIX}/java/bin/java in jre rather than jdk. Now JAVA_HOME can 2001-09-14 10:19:10 +00:00
licenses VMWare license in preparation for the package in emulators/vmware. 2001-07-07 14:24:21 +00:00
mail libcompface.*, not libcompfaces.* 2001-09-14 02:17:57 +00:00
math Convert to use buildlink.mk file and mark as USE_BUILDLINK_ONLY 2001-09-12 04:43:52 +00:00
mbone Deprecate NO_WRKSUBDIR, replacing it with an explicit assignment of: 2001-09-09 20:36:07 +00:00
meta-pkgs * Fix our netbsd-doc-print package to properly handle the italian 2001-09-02 17:07:01 +00:00
misc src/util.c expects wgetnstr to be in the curses library, so require 2001-09-12 06:47:16 +00:00
mk Fix problem with Solaris' /bin/sh not accepting an empty list in a for 2001-09-14 18:54:43 +00:00
net upgrade to 9.2.0rc3. 2001-09-14 03:58:48 +00:00
news Use "pgp" binary found by "configure" in "pgpverify" instead of hard coded 2001-09-12 11:20:57 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel Deprecate NO_WRKSUBDIR, replacing it with an explicit assignment of: 2001-09-09 20:36:07 +00:00
pkgtools Update pkg-chk to 1.11 2001-09-13 17:44:27 +00:00
print Convert to use buildlink.mk files and mark as USE_BUILDLINK_ONLY. 2001-09-12 04:56:06 +00:00
security Update to 0.2.1, as requested in pkg/13772. 2001-09-14 21:56:49 +00:00
shells Install Russian messages in ru_RU as well as to ru_SU. 2001-09-06 00:54:52 +00:00
sysutils Deprecate NO_WRKSUBDIR, replacing it with an explicit assignment of: 2001-09-09 20:36:07 +00:00
templates Note how to report problems, or send updates or suggestions. 2001-03-19 17:44:30 +00:00
textproc Add a buildlink.mk for for use by other package Makefiles. Closes 2001-09-14 07:40:36 +00:00
time make it build in an xpkgwedged environment 2001-09-14 16:32:30 +00:00
wm Deprecate NO_WRKSUBDIR, replacing it with an explicit assignment of: 2001-09-09 20:36:07 +00:00
www Don't hardwire /usr/pkg (pkg/13673). 2001-09-14 15:38:08 +00:00
x11 Update to 3.8.6, based on pkg/13759 by Jared D. McNeill. 2001-09-14 16:11:55 +00:00
Makefile Use better expressions for grep, to avoid tagging non-IPv6 enabled packages 2001-07-17 13:11:51 +00:00
Packages.txt Document the new Motif-related variables. Deprecate USE_MOTIF in favor of 2001-09-14 01:52:40 +00:00
pkglocate Update the usage message to explain what each option letter does. 2001-04-03 09:28:32 +00:00
README update a bit 2001-06-06 19:41:05 +00:00
TODO cvsup issue is solved 2001-09-14 13:49:36 +00:00

$NetBSD: README,v 1.12 2001/06/06 19:41:05 hubertf 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 file in the same place where you found this README,
usually in the top-level pkgsrc dir.
directory.