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benchmarks replaced some commands by their ${COMMAND} counterparts 1999-12-28 04:26:17 +00:00
biology Add and enable fastDNAml 1999-07-28 20:20:39 +00:00
cad replaced some commands by their ${COMMAND} counterparts 1999-12-28 04:29:52 +00:00
comms remove unnecessary PKGNAME (==DISTNAME) 1999-12-28 04:34:52 +00:00
converters Add and enable psiconv 1999-12-06 01:59:22 +00:00
corba this wants gettext 1999-12-06 00:47:09 +00:00
cross Don't try to copy files/CVS. 1999-12-20 21:50:46 +00:00
databases Add and enable p5-pgsql. 1999-12-23 13:18:43 +00:00
devel Use "${MASTER_SITE_GNU}" instead of hard coding "ftp.gnu.org". 1999-12-26 18:07:19 +00:00
distfiles Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
editors Update "vile" package to version 9.0. This version fixes many bugs found 1999-12-26 17:57:50 +00:00
emulators makemake makemakepatchpatchsumsum 1999-12-18 22:10:30 +00:00
fonts Consistency: 1999-09-21 17:20:03 +00:00
games omega 1999-12-28 02:35:16 +00:00
graphics After all these fixes: gif2png 2.2.4 -> 2.2.5 1999-12-26 00:45:50 +00:00
ham Update tfkiss to 1.2.2 provided in pr 8805 by Berndt Josef Wulf 1999-11-16 08:39:54 +00:00
japanese Fix a serious bug in the dictionary and fix ``in a hurry.'' :-) 1999-12-27 23:21:21 +00:00
lang - Fix broken object file format recognition. 1999-12-27 18:20:11 +00:00
mail be more friendly with mailwrapper(8) when installing sendmail. 1999-12-27 09:34:13 +00:00
math - Add a comment about why HOME is overriden during the build process. 1999-12-22 16:15:45 +00:00
mbone Avoid fuzz by reducing context lines by one for this patch to omit RCS 1999-12-12 08:21:58 +00:00
meta-pkgs Update dependency on enlightenment to reflect its correct version. 1999-12-17 11:08:06 +00:00
misc Enable setiathome 1999-12-23 01:32:33 +00:00
mk ${FIND} added 1999-12-28 03:33:53 +00:00
net Update to V0.5. Changes: 1999-12-27 23:53:43 +00:00
news Make this work on alpha 1999-12-17 10:30:15 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel -Update from 3.4beta7 to 3.4.2. 1999-11-23 16:05:28 +00:00
pkgtools Recognize more directly used commands (like 'ln' instead of '${LN}') 1999-12-28 03:29:56 +00:00
plan9 Regen. 1999-10-13 11:32:43 +00:00
print DEPENDS=suse_linux-6.1p1:../../emulators/suse_linux, suggested by Hubert Feyrer. 1999-12-22 05:09:19 +00:00
security It looks like libwrap wasn't used ever since it became a dynamic lib? 1999-12-28 03:54:19 +00:00
shells defuzz 1999-11-27 23:33:23 +00:00
sysutils Make sure that the linker doesn't try to link with the "hfs" shared 1999-12-24 13:15:05 +00:00
templates Embed number of items in the category into the sentence. 1999-12-10 13:53:06 +00:00
textproc Fix default sgml catalog path, add NetBSD id to patch, correct 1999-12-16 22:03:12 +00:00
www Add and enable galway. 1999-12-20 12:04:26 +00:00
x11 Do not increase parser stack usage. 1999-12-23 23:12:49 +00:00
Makefile Ignore case when sorting lines in README-all.html 1999-10-26 01:50:04 +00:00
Packages.txt Add notes for LTCONFIG_OVERRIDE and LIBTOOL_OVERRIDE definition 1999-12-07 08:58:59 +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.