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cjep bf5ec62232 Initial import of nail 10.3 into the NetBSD packages collection as
mail/nail.

Nail is a mail user agent derived from Berkeley Mail 8.1. It is
intended to provide the functionality of the POSIX.2 mailx command
with built-in support for MIME messages. This means it can handle
international character sets as well as attachments. In recent
system environments, nail is Unicode/UTF-8 capable. It further
contains some minor enhancements like the ability to set a "From:"
Address.

Supplied (for nail 10.1) by Mishka in PR#19112. Thanks!
2002-12-09 10:37:17 +00:00
archivers USE_PKGLOCALEDIR, remove unnecessary patches. 2002-11-30 11:16:17 +00:00
audio NFC how this ever compiled - there is no strnicmp on NetBSD. 2002-12-09 02:32:55 +00:00
benchmarks whitespace nit. 2002-12-07 15:40:49 +00:00
biology Fix thinko, /usr -> ${PREFIX}. 2002-12-01 20:25:39 +00:00
cad add and enable covered-current 2002-12-08 04:22:15 +00:00
chat fixup buildlink stuff - mostly by salo 2002-12-08 05:59:50 +00:00
comms Set OS dependent ${LOCALE_SUFFIX}. 2002-12-02 01:52:48 +00:00
converters Make this compile under Solaris, too. Reviewed by wiz@netbsd.org 2002-12-05 16:45:21 +00:00
cross Fix build error when devel/autoheader is not installed. 2002-10-16 05:11:00 +00:00
databases tabs instead of spaces for indentation. 2002-12-08 23:23:42 +00:00
devel USE_BUILDLINK_ONLY->USE_BUILDLINK2, require pthread library. This fixes build 2002-12-08 01:30:23 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
doc Initial import of imapproxy-1.0 2002-12-09 03:19:58 +00:00
editors Trivially update to TeXmacs 1.0.0.24. Changes include: 2002-12-06 17:04:30 +00:00
emulators Fix a bug that caused the display to be truncated for some games. 2002-12-08 13:09:44 +00:00
finance USE_PKGLOCALEDIR, delint. 2002-11-30 23:44:10 +00:00
fonts Replace IGNORE with PKG_FAIL_REASON or PKG_SKIP_REASON as appropriate. 2002-12-07 02:38:52 +00:00
games Whitespace and order. 2002-12-08 13:07:42 +00:00
graphics Create the directory ${PREFIX}/share/pixmaps before trying to install files 2002-12-08 21:11:17 +00:00
ham USE_PKGLOCALEDIR. 2002-12-01 14:37:12 +00:00
inputmethod Add missing buildlink2.mk file for graphics/gdk-pixbuf, +USE_BUILDLINK2. 2002-12-08 03:24:26 +00:00
lang 1. Respect YACC, CC, CFLAGS as per PR#19013. 2002-12-09 00:05:27 +00:00
licenses Add a license for freshly imported /devel/pvs. Also available online 2002-09-24 17:58:32 +00:00
mail Initial import of nail 10.3 into the NetBSD packages collection as 2002-12-09 10:37:17 +00:00
math +USE_X11. 2002-12-08 03:50:14 +00:00
mbone Add configure patch to remove autoconf dependency. 2002-10-02 22:47:35 +00:00
meta-pkgs Convert to buildlink2 (untested). 2002-10-05 11:26:35 +00:00
misc Add missing buildlink2.mk file for graphics/glu. 2002-12-08 00:24:44 +00:00
mk use /usr/xpg4/bin/grep as GREP, as /usr/bin/grep does not support -e. 2002-12-09 05:38:57 +00:00
net Whitespace complaint from pkglint. 2002-12-08 23:19:17 +00:00
news Update of news/leafnode to 1.9.30. 2002-12-08 12:44:12 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel Add distinfo, noted missing by Hiramatsu Yoshifumi on tech-pkg. 2002-11-20 19:53:06 +00:00
pkgtools Fix typo in manual page. 2002-12-08 12:54:44 +00:00
print Fix PR#19323 from Ryo Hayaska 2002-12-08 11:39:24 +00:00
security Avoid using the "tl" modifier in PKGNAME. It is not supported in make of 2002-12-07 11:23:48 +00:00
shells Build script needs to be run with Pdksh. Reconverted to Buildlink2. 2002-11-29 04:16:45 +00:00
sysutils Update sysbuild to 1.3. 2002-12-08 11:37:18 +00:00
templates Fix the location of DESCR for the readme files 2001-11-03 03:26:08 +00:00
textproc ``Update'' to 2002-2-1, as the friendly people of latex2html have once 2002-12-08 22:32:07 +00:00
time Update to 1.38 2002-11-15 02:50:24 +00:00
wm Updated fvwm2 to 2.4.14 2002-12-02 08:53:01 +00:00
www Updated phoenix-linux to 0.5. 2002-12-09 00:24:51 +00:00
x11 Set correct WRKSRC, delint. 2002-12-08 02:13:30 +00:00
Makefile use = instead of ?= when setting _PKGSRCDIR during the bulk-cache target. 2002-12-01 05:51:33 +00:00
Packages.txt document how to use sudo with pkgsrc 2002-12-03 10:51:47 +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.