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garbled c54bfe9f06 xdoom-1.10: a 3D shoot-em-up for 8-bit X11 displays.
Many thanks to Matthias Drochner for giving me his framework on the pkg
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archivers The Grand Homepagification: 1998-08-20 15:16:34 +00:00
audio Automatically append HOMEPAge to DESCR files, and remove homepage URLs 1998-08-26 16:50:48 +00:00
benchmarks The Grand Homepagification: 1998-08-20 15:16:34 +00:00
cad Automatically append HOMEPAge to DESCR files, and remove homepage URLs 1998-08-26 16:50:48 +00:00
comms Automatically append HOMEPAge to DESCR files, and remove homepage URLs 1998-08-26 16:50:48 +00:00
converters The Grand Homepagification: 1998-08-20 15:16:34 +00:00
corba Add HOMEPAGE. 1998-08-21 08:26:24 +00:00
cross Fix location of wmemu2b.zip. 1998-08-26 19:35:37 +00:00
databases Automatically append HOMEPAge to DESCR files, and remove homepage URLs 1998-08-26 16:50:48 +00:00
devel Automatically append HOMEPAge to DESCR files, and remove homepage URLs 1998-08-26 16:50:48 +00:00
distfiles Explain what goes here. 1997-12-17 09:25:18 +00:00
editors Update hexedit to 0.9.5. 1998-08-27 22:08:37 +00:00
emulators Remove unnecessery blank lines. 1998-08-23 21:03:07 +00:00
fonts/Xg Add NetBSD RCS Ids. 1998-08-07 13:27:33 +00:00
games xdoom-1.10: a 3D shoot-em-up for 8-bit X11 displays. 1998-08-28 12:53:03 +00:00
graphics Enable xli. 1998-08-27 11:18:44 +00:00
lang Automatically append HOMEPAge to DESCR files, and remove homepage URLs 1998-08-26 16:50:48 +00:00
mail Update fetchmail to 4.5.7. 1998-08-28 11:25:35 +00:00
math Automatically append HOMEPAge to DESCR files, and remove homepage URLs 1998-08-26 16:50:48 +00:00
mbone The Grand Homepagification: 1998-08-20 15:16:34 +00:00
meta-pkgs As apache got upgraded to 1.3.1, adjust DEPENDS on it as well. 1998-08-14 10:17:44 +00:00
misc Fix my MAINTAINER= field on these, because that old address bounces mail 1998-08-27 13:46:00 +00:00
mk Re-introduce NO_PKG_REGISTER. We now have a use for it. 1998-08-28 11:13:23 +00:00
net Automatically append HOMEPAge to DESCR files, and remove homepage URLs 1998-08-26 16:50:48 +00:00
news The Grand Homepagification: 1998-08-20 15:16:34 +00:00
packages Explain what goes here. 1997-12-17 09:25:18 +00:00
pkgtools + Add a pkgtools category. 1998-08-28 12:25:35 +00:00
plan9 Fix compilation on alpha. Closes PR 5768 (Tim Rightnour) 1998-08-23 05:52:46 +00:00
print Add PAPERSIZE?=A4 to give a default value for the dependence on a2ps 1998-08-27 22:18:31 +00:00
security PGPLIB has datafiles, not libraries, so make it share/pgp instead of lib/pgp. 1998-08-26 02:42:02 +00:00
shells Fix compilation on alpha. Closes PR 5768 (Tim Rightnour) 1998-08-23 05:52:46 +00:00
sysutils Automatically append HOMEPAge to DESCR files, and remove homepage URLs 1998-08-26 16:50:48 +00:00
templates Packages.txt moved. 1998-08-23 01:32:19 +00:00
textproc Automatically append HOMEPAge to DESCR files, and remove homepage URLs 1998-08-26 16:50:48 +00:00
www Automatically append HOMEPAge to DESCR files, and remove homepage URLs 1998-08-26 16:50:48 +00:00
x11 Created a better description for Wharf, based on the man-page. 1998-08-28 04:18:11 +00:00
Makefile Add pkgtools category 1998-08-28 12:26:50 +00:00
Packages.txt Modify ldconfig part of PLIST, and libtool explanation, to match reality. 1998-08-24 10:31:00 +00:00
README note move of Packages.txt 1998-08-21 19:11:10 +00:00

$NetBSD: README,v 1.7 1998/08/21 19:11:10 perry 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 weekly into a tar_file: 

	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.

+ To find out what variables exists to customize some behaviour of
pkgsrc (e.g. where it installs to) have a look at
pkgsrc/mk/mk.conf.example. You can set those in /etc/mk.conf.

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 something like 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 watched 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.