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archivers Make this shorter.. 1999-09-19 19:39:37 +00:00
audio chmod -> ${CHMOD} 1999-10-28 02:57:51 +00:00
benchmarks Use ${LOWER_OPSYS} instead of 1999-09-06 04:48:53 +00:00
biology Add and enable fastDNAml 1999-07-28 20:20:39 +00:00
cad Use wildcard dependence for "gtk+" package. 1999-10-24 16:42:30 +00:00
comms - Add patch for Backup conduit supplied by Alan Harder which fixes 1999-10-22 23:31:51 +00:00
converters Remove me as maintainer of those packages. 1999-10-07 17:41:46 +00:00
corba Update "ORBit" package to version 0.5.0 included in GNOME 1.0.53 release. 1999-10-22 23:35:37 +00:00
cross Provide --with-gxx-include-dir explicitly, to match expectations 1999-10-27 10:46:55 +00:00
databases Use wildcard dependences for "gnome-libs" and "gnome-core" packages. 1999-10-23 11:08:54 +00:00
devel Describe this package a bit more fully. 1999-11-01 13:34:02 +00:00
distfiles Explain what goes here. 1997-12-17 09:25:18 +00:00
editors Reran make makemakemakemakepatchsum. 1999-10-29 13:28:07 +00:00
emulators Update bochs to 991023a. 1999-10-25 16:05:37 +00:00
fonts Consistency: 1999-09-21 17:20:03 +00:00
games Update to V0.43. It now uses "ls -l" instead of GNU find now, and 1999-10-29 00:51:00 +00:00
graphics Remove obsolete parts of DESCR 1999-11-01 03:35:39 +00:00
ham Add IS_INTERACTIVE=yes because this package really is. 1999-09-06 21:42:44 +00:00
japanese Add patches for warning of vfork and tputs, 1999-11-01 10:23:44 +00:00
lang Add and enable librep. 1999-10-29 13:58:38 +00:00
mail Remove version string of conflicted ja-mh pkg. 1999-10-30 17:09:09 +00:00
math Remove "BROKEN" now that the libglade problems have been resolved. 1999-10-30 16:43:03 +00:00
mbone add RCS IDs to patches, fix patchsum and move out of X11BASE 1999-10-28 02:40:23 +00:00
meta-pkgs Update stale dependencies on rxvt and mutt. 1999-08-30 09:15:29 +00:00
misc add and enable dgpsip 1999-10-31 01:29:39 +00:00
mk Recognise "lib" entries with two or more version numbers, in the 1999-11-01 11:15:20 +00:00
net unset "DOMAIN" env-var. 1999-11-01 04:05:44 +00:00
news This file had somehow become corrupted. Regenerate. 1999-10-25 22:35:22 +00:00
packages Explain what goes here. 1997-12-17 09:25:18 +00:00
parallel Mark packages as broken, where necessary. 1999-10-27 17:14:01 +00:00
pkgtools Fix type, pointed out by Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@dingo.ping.net.au> 1999-10-30 16:36:44 +00:00
plan9 Regen. 1999-10-13 11:32:43 +00:00
print Enable mp. 1999-10-28 20:06:54 +00:00
security Checksum of distfiles changed. 1999-11-01 04:14:00 +00:00
shells Make this work on more operating systems with less effort. 1999-09-19 22:27:36 +00:00
sysutils add & enable lavaps 1999-10-31 21:20:43 +00:00
templates Add note link to compile-instructions if someone doesn't find the 1999-10-26 13:19:16 +00:00
textproc Make this package compile on Solaris, by cleaning up the package 1999-10-28 14:29:20 +00:00
www * Modify to support gd-1.7.3. 1999-11-01 03:37:35 +00:00
x11 Make comment file conform to "standards". 1999-11-01 13:28:33 +00:00
Makefile Ignore case when sorting lines in README-all.html 1999-10-26 01:50:04 +00:00
Packages.txt Document new behaviour of "update" target. 1999-10-31 19:45:15 +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.