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salo 9f0223d75e Import of libtasn1-0.2.4: ASN.1 structure parser library.
libtasn1 library was developed for ASN1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One)
structures management.

The main features of this library are:
- on-line ASN1 structure management that does
  not require any C code file generation;
- off-line ASN1 structure management with C code
  file generation containing an array;
- DER (Distinguish Encoding Rules) encoding;
- no limits for INTEGER and ENUMERATED values

Package provided bu Juan RP via pkgsrc-wip with some modifications by me.
2003-05-14 03:23:43 +00:00
archivers - sync buildlink2.mk with reality 2003-05-14 02:11:25 +00:00
audio This isn't available for NetBSD until libXxf86vm.so is supplied in the X sets 2003-05-11 07:20:30 +00:00
benchmarks Drop trailing whitespace. Ok'ed by wiz. 2003-05-06 17:40:18 +00:00
biology Update to version 5.1. 2003-05-10 23:46:15 +00:00
cad Need qmake. Include qt3-tools 2003-05-11 07:40:51 +00:00
chat A Perl script needs REPLACE_PERL; PR21548 by Juan RP <jrp at hispabsd 2003-05-12 12:03:12 +00:00
comms HOMEPAGE moves to http://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/. 2003-05-12 08:37:05 +00:00
converters Drop trailing whitespace. Ok'ed by wiz. 2003-05-06 17:40:18 +00:00
cross Update to 1.4.0 2003-04-27 13:50:09 +00:00
databases Fix some PKGSRCDIR paths 2003-05-12 14:56:20 +00:00
devel Buildlinkify w. readline support and patch so all NetBSD instances of 2003-05-12 21:27:10 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
doc Note xdialog update. 2003-05-13 23:39:49 +00:00
editors Updated lyx to 1.3.2 2003-05-09 08:02:29 +00:00
emulators Redo do-build line so it actually works 2003-05-12 21:15:34 +00:00
finance Typo on USE_BUILDLINK2 2003-05-12 21:29:46 +00:00
fonts Drop trailing whitespace. Ok'ed by wiz. 2003-05-06 17:40:18 +00:00
games Update to 0.4.0: 2003-05-13 12:06:23 +00:00
graphics Don't work through depends list if suse6.4 since tiff isn't available there. 2003-05-13 21:47:29 +00:00
ham Drop trailing whitespace. Ok'ed by wiz. 2003-05-06 17:40:18 +00:00
inputmethod Drop trailing whitespace. Ok'ed by wiz. 2003-05-06 17:40:18 +00:00
lang This doesn't buildlinkify a java compiler so the java portions aren't built. 2003-05-12 01:41:53 +00:00
licenses Add Bitstream Cyberbit license. 2003-04-22 09:42:28 +00:00
mail Update exmh package from 2.5 to 2.6.3. 2003-05-12 20:40:17 +00:00
math Get typo for doc/doc 2003-05-12 02:10:23 +00:00
mbone Add & enable rtptools. 2003-05-07 20:53:25 +00:00
meta-pkgs Drop trailing whitespace. Ok'ed by wiz. 2003-05-06 17:40:18 +00:00
misc Patch for current pilot-libs and re-enable this package 2003-05-13 20:02:50 +00:00
mk Add no_NO (for xdialog). 2003-05-13 23:00:04 +00:00
net - DESCR has 80 columns 2003-05-13 01:25:24 +00:00
news Update "inn" package to version 2.3.5. Changes since version 2.3.4: 2003-05-13 11:56:44 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel Drop trailing whitespace. Ok'ed by wiz. 2003-05-06 17:40:18 +00:00
pkgtools Drop trailing whitespace. Ok'ed by wiz. 2003-05-06 17:40:18 +00:00
print Add a conflict with version 5.x of the "acroread" package. 2003-05-08 16:35:41 +00:00
security Import of libtasn1-0.2.4: ASN.1 structure parser library. 2003-05-14 03:23:43 +00:00
shells Drop trailing whitespace. Ok'ed by wiz. 2003-05-06 17:40:18 +00:00
sysutils Updated etcupdate to 20030509 2003-05-09 08:03:08 +00:00
templates Fix the location of DESCR for the readme files 2001-11-03 03:26:08 +00:00
textproc Match example data up with reality of whats installed. 2003-05-12 05:14:42 +00:00
time Drop a duplicate DEPENDS line. 2003-05-10 17:40:00 +00:00
wm Update wmthemes to 0.80.0 (matches current windowmaker version): 2003-05-08 14:55:13 +00:00
www Remove a :Q that is over quoting $SUNOSLIB when used by the moz-install 2003-05-13 13:36:04 +00:00
x11 Updated to version 2.0.6. 2003-05-13 23:33:01 +00:00
Makefile Drop trailing whitespace. Ok'ed by wiz. 2003-05-06 17:40:18 +00:00
Packages.txt Fix example - advise user to extract pkgsrc.tar.gz into /usr 2003-05-08 13:31:06 +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 Drop trailing whitespace. Ok'ed by wiz. 2003-05-06 17:40:18 +00:00

$NetBSD: README,v 1.15 2003/05/06 17:40:18 jmmv 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 directory.