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archivers Don't try to strip non-native-format binary. 1999-03-28 15:34:24 +00:00
audio add etc/rplay.conf 1999-03-29 12:58:59 +00:00
benchmarks s/cc/${CC}/ 1999-03-16 09:02:26 +00:00
cad Update to gEDA-19990327 1999-03-28 21:22:23 +00:00
comms Always use big buffers. Fixes PR pkg/7236 by Greg A. Woods. 1999-03-26 23:59:59 +00:00
converters - Don't build "QwSpriteField" (now a separte package) and "js" library 1999-03-23 23:30:23 +00:00
corba Correct the directory path on the redhat ftp site. 1999-03-22 22:43:41 +00:00
cross add autoconf (-> autoheader) as BUILD_DEPEND 1999-03-28 17:16:45 +00:00
databases Upgrade to tcl version 8.0.5. This seems to be primarily a bug-fix 1999-04-01 13:36:55 +00:00
devel Eliminate libdata/PTL 1999-03-30 00:59:24 +00:00
distfiles Explain what goes here. 1997-12-17 09:25:18 +00:00
editors add lib/X11/app-defaults/Sam 1999-03-29 17:08:49 +00:00
emulators document and enable pcemu. 1999-03-31 06:38:29 +00:00
fonts/Xg Replace all occurrences of USE_X11 with USE_X11BASE. This means "install this 1999-01-30 23:18:44 +00:00
games Upgrade to tcl version 8.0.5. This seems to be primarily a bug-fix 1999-04-01 13:36:55 +00:00
graphics Fix the master_site. It looks like version 1.2 is allready out, but I don't 1999-04-01 06:06:49 +00:00
japanese Document and enable micq. 1999-03-30 08:02:01 +00:00
lang Upgrade to tcl version 8.0.5. This seems to be primarily a bug-fix 1999-04-01 13:36:55 +00:00
mail Upgrade to tcl version 8.0.5. This seems to be primarily a bug-fix 1999-04-01 13:36:55 +00:00
math Upgrade to tcl version 8.0.5. This seems to be primarily a bug-fix 1999-04-01 13:36:55 +00:00
mbone Move the definition of BUILD_ROOT into bsd.pkg.mk, from the individual 1999-03-22 09:38:22 +00:00
meta-pkgs Fix order of category list. 1999-03-07 22:42:06 +00:00
misc remove diplicate @dirrm 1999-03-29 00:33:40 +00:00
mk Provide an acceptable default for PRE_ROOT_CMD - pointed out by Tim 1999-04-01 07:29:14 +00:00
net add a bunch of files in share/doc/vnc 1999-03-29 16:42:53 +00:00
news Update for "knews" package to version 1.0b1 supplied by Frederick Bruckman 1999-03-14 15:07:20 +00:00
packages Explain what goes here. 1997-12-17 09:25:18 +00:00
parallel Eek. Committed a change that we're not quite ready for just yet. 1999-03-08 11:05:22 +00:00
pkgtools Add Solaris support to pkglibtool, so that the correct format of .so 1999-03-31 10:05:57 +00:00
plan9 add lib/X11/app-defaults/Sam 1999-03-29 17:08:49 +00:00
print add share/texmf/fonts/tfm/jknappen/ec/ecrm1000.tfm 1999-03-29 15:47:12 +00:00
security Make this work on Solaris. 1999-03-30 15:37:00 +00:00
shells Catch up with MASTER_SITE_GNU reorganization. 1999-03-22 16:08:30 +00:00
sysutils Remove entries from lsof_4.40_W, just keep the current one. 1999-03-28 22:05:36 +00:00
templates Packages.txt moved. 1998-08-23 01:32:19 +00:00
textproc Add man/man1/unroff-html-me.1.gz 1999-03-29 13:35:16 +00:00
www Rename to webalizer-1.22.01 (no dash in version number) 1999-03-30 22:41:41 +00:00
x11 Upgrade to tcl version 8.0.5. This seems to be primarily a bug-fix 1999-04-01 13:36:55 +00:00
Makefile Back out last two revs and go back to 1.19. 1999-03-03 20:19:05 +00:00
Packages.txt Correct the wrong information about ldconfig in PLIST files. 1999-02-24 10:40:58 +00:00
README Minor mods to clean up the English. 1998-09-01 11:03:23 +00:00

$NetBSD: README,v 1.8 1998/09/01 11:03:23 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 && 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".

+ 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.

+ 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 pksrc/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.

For more information on the packages collection see the file
Packages.txt in this directory.