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hubertf 95bfb657f5 If compiled with esound (or rather, esound is found at compilation time), and
xlock is called with "+sound" to not play sound, actually do so. (Worked
w/o esound).

Patch submitted in PR 11185 by Mark Davies <mark@MCS.VUW.AC.NZ>
2000-11-09 04:46:21 +00:00
archivers use gettext library from outside (USE_LIBINTL + BUILD_DEPENDS devel/gettext). 2000-11-02 02:35:14 +00:00
audio 1.1.2 distfiles have moved - s:pub/kde/stable/:pub/kde/Attic/old/ 2000-11-08 15:09:35 +00:00
benchmarks Work around gcc codegen bug that results in infinite loop compiling mhz.c -O 2000-11-08 10:13:40 +00:00
biology Take advantage of bsd.prefs.mk - pointed out by IWAMOTO Toshihiro 2000-09-27 14:14:24 +00:00
cad add and enable xcircuit 2000-11-02 14:02:04 +00:00
comms properly BUILD_DEPEND on gettext. add USE_LIBINTL. 2000-11-08 17:47:14 +00:00
converters 1.1.2 distfiles have moved - s:pub/kde/stable/:pub/kde/Attic/old/ 2000-11-08 15:09:35 +00:00
cross Comment on headers from NetBSD. 2000-11-06 05:40:28 +00:00
databases Use pkgsrc libtool. 2000-11-07 20:28:23 +00:00
devel Update gal to 0.2.1. Changes are bugfixes only. 2000-11-06 18:15:33 +00:00
distfiles Scaled down version of xdaemon_color.png 2000-10-26 02:32:04 +00:00
editors Update to 3.8. 2000-11-09 03:34:13 +00:00
emulators Update for 0.37b6.1. 2000-11-05 00:43:30 +00:00
fonts add caveat. some fonts seem to have wrong font metric. 2000-11-02 04:20:07 +00:00
games 1.1.2 distfiles have moved - s:pub/kde/stable/:pub/kde/Attic/old/ 2000-11-08 15:09:35 +00:00
graphics Fix typo in last commit. 2000-11-08 21:57:19 +00:00
ham sort 2000-10-24 10:13:35 +00:00
japanese Dual stack (IPv6) support. 2000-11-09 03:54:07 +00:00
lang Make perl work on NetBSD/sparc64. 2000-11-08 08:28:00 +00:00
mail Update to 4.30. 2000-11-09 03:37:26 +00:00
math Add and enable blas. 2000-11-06 17:56:09 +00:00
mbone Regen. 2000-10-23 04:11:01 +00:00
meta-pkgs sort 2000-10-24 10:13:35 +00:00
misc 1.1.2 distfiles have moved - s:pub/kde/stable/:pub/kde/Attic/old/ 2000-11-08 15:09:35 +00:00
mk Add -lXp to MOTIFLIB, needed by openmotif. 2000-11-02 12:17:03 +00:00
net /usr/local -> /usr/pkg 2000-11-08 23:38:52 +00:00
news Update to 0.9.6.3 2000-10-30 14:17:19 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel remove trailing whitespace 2000-10-21 22:52:37 +00:00
pkgtools Update xpkgwedge to 1.0 and make appropriate changes to bsd.pkg.mk to handle 2000-10-23 17:32:06 +00:00
plan9 Pass a sane value as PKGSRCDIR. 2000-08-25 02:33:44 +00:00
print add and enable dvidvi-1.0 2000-10-26 22:34:25 +00:00
security upgrade to 20001106a. 2000-11-06 09:00:46 +00:00
shells Add and enable "esh". Fixes PR pkg/11376 Jason Beegan. 2000-11-02 21:53:09 +00:00
sysutils Make sure that locale files go into the correct directory. 2000-11-08 13:22:33 +00:00
templates Add the glue for showing any security vulnerabilities to the README.html 2000-09-19 19:29:11 +00:00
textproc * Relax requirement on ghostscript to also allow ghostscript-nox11. 2000-11-03 01:05:06 +00:00
www Adjust dirs to deality - we should really do some automagic expansion in 2000-11-08 23:16:56 +00:00
x11 If compiled with esound (or rather, esound is found at compilation time), and 2000-11-09 04:46:21 +00:00
Makefile Revert last change. I only tested this on netbsd-1-4; it doesn't seem to 2000-09-07 02:29:40 +00:00
Packages.txt USE_CURSES logic moved to bsd.prefs.mk 2000-11-02 03:03:39 +00:00
pkglocate fix to really exit if glimpse is not installed 2000-04-11 16:59:17 +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.