Automatic conversion of the NetBSD pkgsrc CVS module, use with care
Find a file
2002-09-27 10:36:07 +00:00
archivers Make this package build on arm. The same principle should apply to 2002-09-25 06:35:48 +00:00
audio Add and enable tremor and tremor-tools. 2002-09-27 07:01:31 +00:00
benchmarks Use ROOT_{USER,GROUP} instead of hardcoding uid=gid=0. 2002-09-20 23:48:12 +00:00
biology buildlink1 -> buildlink2 2002-09-21 01:23:56 +00:00
cad buildlink1 -> buildlink2 2002-09-25 06:36:07 +00:00
chat Add freetype dependency. 2002-09-26 19:32:25 +00:00
comms Bump to scmxx-0.6.1.5nb1, after distfile change due to an adjustment of 2002-09-23 10:49:30 +00:00
converters Update p5-Jcode package to 0.82. 2002-09-23 23:39:58 +00:00
cross Standardize. 2002-09-12 17:12:36 +00:00
databases Add BUILDLINK_CPPFLAGS.<pkg> for these packages to help packages find 2002-09-26 22:34:09 +00:00
devel Remove duplicate blank line to make pkglint happy 2002-09-27 10:36:07 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
doc Updated : 2002-09-27 09:46:10 +00:00
editors regen (bl1 -> bl2) 2002-09-27 09:46:27 +00:00
emulators Complete standardization of messages according to latest pkglint. 2002-09-24 12:29:55 +00:00
finance Strip the ".buildlink" from the names of the python application and 2002-09-21 23:46:45 +00:00
fonts Use ${GMAKE} instead of bare "gmake" now. 2002-09-24 14:21:43 +00:00
games lower optimization level on sparc. With -O2, crafty segfaults immediately, 2002-09-25 12:32:00 +00:00
graphics fix and enable AAC support. mplayer now plays Quicktime 6 (.mp4) files 2002-09-27 00:31:00 +00:00
ham Complete standardization of messages according to latest pkglint. 2002-09-24 12:29:55 +00:00
inputmethod Complete standardization of messages according to latest pkglint. 2002-09-24 12:29:55 +00:00
lang Use ${BASENAME} instead of "basename", and fix a typo. 2002-09-27 09:41:40 +00:00
licenses Add a license for freshly imported /devel/pvs. Also available online 2002-09-24 17:58:32 +00:00
mail Dewey-wildcard for p5-MIME-tools. 2002-09-26 02:03:40 +00:00
math Patch Makefile to quote variables. 2002-09-26 15:46:47 +00:00
mbone correct malformed patch 2002-09-27 03:01:30 +00:00
meta-pkgs Complete standardization of messages according to latest pkglint. 2002-09-24 12:29:55 +00:00
misc Complete standardization of messages according to latest pkglint. 2002-09-24 12:29:55 +00:00
mk Add share/locale/is. 2002-09-27 09:51:48 +00:00
net Remove dependency on automake by patching the Makefile.in file instead of 2002-09-27 00:45:13 +00:00
news Upgrade of Leafnode (news/leafnode) to version 1.9.27. 2002-09-25 06:50:17 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel Complete standardization of messages according to latest pkglint. 2002-09-24 12:29:55 +00:00
pkgtools Create a new variable USE_X11_LINKS that controls whether packages that 2002-09-27 09:22:58 +00:00
print fix compilation on sparc (all big endian machines?). 2002-09-27 04:01:32 +00:00
security Updated to p5-SSLeay-0.45 2002-09-27 09:41:21 +00:00
shells Fix COMMENT. 2002-09-27 07:22:55 +00:00
sysutils buildlink1 -> buildlink2 2002-09-26 22:50:32 +00:00
templates Fix the location of DESCR for the readme files 2001-11-03 03:26:08 +00:00
textproc Update to latest distfile on MASTER_SITE with the same name (Grrrrrrrr). 2002-09-26 16:08:40 +00:00
time Complete standardization of messages according to latest pkglint. 2002-09-24 12:29:55 +00:00
wm Update to version 0.8.5, released today. 2002-09-24 14:21:52 +00:00
www regen (bl1 -> bl2) 2002-09-27 09:53:14 +00:00
x11 regen (patch-aa removal) 2002-09-27 09:54:33 +00:00
Makefile Some whitespace cleanup. 2002-09-24 13:59:20 +00:00
Packages.txt doc/pkg-CHANGES is now pkgsrc/doc/CHANGES 2002-09-19 12:48:04 +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.