Automatic conversion of the NetBSD pkgsrc CVS module, use with care
Find a file
agc a795ccc8e2 Make sure we don't ignore ${LOCALBASE}/bin/tcsh when creating the new
/etc/shells entry with grep -v /bin/tcsh - be sure to match the whole
line.
2001-08-06 20:46:58 +00:00
archivers Add dir_DEFAULT setting used by EVAL_PREFIX logic to set the default 2001-07-27 13:33:18 +00:00
audio Regen. 2001-08-05 15:22:11 +00:00
benchmarks Forgot RCS ID. 2001-07-28 00:15:12 +00:00
biology Update to 5.0. 2001-07-08 13:36:33 +00:00
cad update to verilog-0.5 2001-08-04 01:20:43 +00:00
chat Add and enable kyahoo 2001-08-01 07:35:41 +00:00
comms Add dir_DEFAULT setting used by EVAL_PREFIX logic to set the default 2001-07-27 13:33:18 +00:00
converters Add buildlink.mk, provided by Martti Kuparinen in pkg/13636. 2001-08-06 13:57:48 +00:00
cross Add mipsEEel-netbsd. 2001-08-05 15:30:22 +00:00
databases Add and enable kmysqladmin 2001-08-01 08:22:23 +00:00
devel Update readline to 4.2. Major changes from version 4.1: 2001-08-06 14:20:46 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
editors add conflicts for vim6 (vim-devel) 2001-08-06 17:44:44 +00:00
emulators vmware needs suse_x11 in addition to suse_base. 2001-08-01 23:21:00 +00:00
finance Provide an empty "wctype.h" on NetBSD 1.5.x systems which is enough to 2001-08-06 16:25:44 +00:00
fonts add ko-*. supersedes ksc5601fonts. 2001-07-22 01:13:10 +00:00
games Update to 0.5.2, fixing pkg/13582 in the process. 2001-08-01 18:19:11 +00:00
graphics Create directories one by one because Solaris's "/usr/ucb/install" command 2001-08-06 15:00:31 +00:00
ham Add an info dir entry to tntdoc.info and fix Makefile and PLIST accordingly. 2001-05-16 22:07:02 +00:00
japanese Update ja-less to ja-less-358. 2001-07-29 14:10:06 +00:00
lang Use the library naming scheme under Solaris as under NetBSD. While it's 2001-07-29 07:09:51 +00:00
licenses VMWare license in preparation for the package in emulators/vmware. 2001-07-07 14:24:21 +00:00
mail Improve COMMENT - guess where pine got it's name from. 2001-08-06 02:58:57 +00:00
math Complete conversion to use buildlink.mk files by using pdflib/buildlink.mk 2001-07-30 20:23:31 +00:00
mbone CPPFLAGS is now passed to MAKE_ENV and CONFIGURE_ENV by bsd.pkg.mk, so 2001-06-11 06:34:17 +00:00
meta-pkgs Update to new COMMENT style: COMMENT var in Makefile instead of pkg/COMMENT. 2001-02-17 17:52:59 +00:00
misc This package really wants to have autoconf. Give it to it. 2001-08-01 16:30:38 +00:00
mk ftp.digital.com seem to have dropped their cpan archive - switch to loaded 2001-08-01 16:18:18 +00:00
net Add and enable pxe 2001-08-06 09:47:29 +00:00
news Redirect standard output to "/dev/null" when starting "rc.news" to avoid 2001-07-29 05:11:26 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel forgot to cvs add these first. 2001-05-24 19:51:47 +00:00
pkgtools Update "pkgchk" to version 1.07: 2001-07-31 17:32:06 +00:00
print Link sbin/accept, not bin/accept, to bin/{disable,enable}. 2001-08-06 18:06:25 +00:00
security update. fix compilation on alpha. 2001-08-06 08:25:12 +00:00
shells Make sure we don't ignore ${LOCALBASE}/bin/tcsh when creating the new 2001-08-06 20:46:58 +00:00
sysutils Update to 1.2.1, provided by Anthony Mallet in pkg/13632. 2001-08-06 14:27:39 +00:00
templates Note how to report problems, or send updates or suggestions. 2001-03-19 17:44:30 +00:00
textproc update to 0.6.6 2001-08-06 16:05:57 +00:00
time Fix installation by creating directories prior to copying files into them. 2001-07-24 09:27:57 +00:00
wm Update to 2.8.1. New since 2.7: 2001-08-03 17:49:40 +00:00
www Update to galeon-0.12pre1 2001-08-06 13:22:08 +00:00
x11 Fix buildlink glue so that it links the LessTif 1.2 and not the 2.0 2001-08-06 10:53:48 +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 Typo: ${X11BASE}} -> ${X11BASE}. 2001-07-30 17:17:20 +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 courier-imap package works with my utterly simple mail setup, and is now 2001-07-31 22:55:49 +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.