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archivers Add patch-aa 2002-05-10 10:01:31 +00:00
audio Updated icecast to 1.3.12 2002-05-15 07:28:51 +00:00
benchmarks Fix a typo. 2002-04-17 21:54:46 +00:00
biology Update to version 1.4.1. Numerous bug fixes since 1.3. 2002-05-03 22:03:08 +00:00
cad update the gEDA suite of tools to the 20020414 snapshot. 2002-05-18 18:08:39 +00:00
chat Update to 1.4, and update my email address. Changes: 2002-05-12 15:40:15 +00:00
comms add & enable conserver 2002-05-09 16:35:51 +00:00
converters Add some more charsets to the alias file (see previous revision). 2002-05-14 15:57:55 +00:00
cross fix typo 2002-05-18 15:00:06 +00:00
databases Update p5-DBD-postgresql to 1.13 2002-05-16 21:19:06 +00:00
devel Alter HOMEPAGE - pkg/16887 by James K. Lowden <jklowden@schemamania.org> 2002-05-18 22:46:47 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
editors prdownloads.sourceforge.net is no longer any use. 2002-05-12 10:16:44 +00:00
emulators x.mame.net seems very slow today - add a second MASTER_SITE 2002-05-17 13:21:30 +00:00
finance Give all packages which depend on "png" a version bump, and update 2002-03-13 17:36:35 +00:00
fonts Add and enable mozilla-fonts. 2002-04-09 13:18:07 +00:00
games prdownloads.sourceforge.net is no longer any use. 2002-05-12 10:16:44 +00:00
graphics Frederick Bruckman maintains this package at the moment. 2002-05-16 06:08:09 +00:00
ham prdownloads.sourceforge.net is no longer any use. 2002-05-12 10:16:44 +00:00
japanese Fix typo reported by KAWAKUBO Hiroshi in pkg/16777. 2002-05-12 15:53:07 +00:00
lang Add a message to inform the user that "ulimit -d" needs to be >= 131204 2002-05-15 19:11:13 +00:00
licenses Mention ms-ttf-license in the list of ACCEPTABLE_LICENCES. 2002-03-06 17:05:30 +00:00
mail Adjust PKGNAME 2002-05-18 11:30:24 +00:00
math Update guppi to 0.40.3 2002-05-15 20:44:15 +00:00
mbone Move pkg/ files into package's toplevel directory 2001-10-31 20:59:00 +00:00
meta-pkgs Add and enable fxtv-capture. 2002-05-14 00:52:15 +00:00
misc Bump PKGREVISION for bugfix, and rectify COMMENT. 2002-05-11 18:02:37 +00:00
mk _DO_SHLIB_CHECKS -> yes 2002-05-18 21:35:45 +00:00
net update to 2.5.2 (only bugfixes according to ChangeLog) 2002-05-17 13:34:48 +00:00
news Remove version number from text, and fmt(1). 2002-05-15 14:31:23 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel Explicitly set PVM_ROOT to fix installation stage. This is due to the change in 2002-02-07 10:49:07 +00:00
pkgtools Update url2pkg to 1.19. This adds some basic libtool-detection mechanism 2002-05-14 00:05:02 +00:00
print Avoid problems with Acrobat reader running under Linux emulation. This 2002-05-14 17:27:26 +00:00
security Update p5-Digest-MD5 to 2.20 2002-05-16 21:28:23 +00:00
shells Imagine my surprise when this failed to build on my -current shark. 2002-04-11 15:26:19 +00:00
sysutils regen 2002-05-18 15:00:42 +00:00
templates Fix the location of DESCR for the readme files 2001-11-03 03:26:08 +00:00
textproc Updated libxml2 to 2.4.21 (only bug fixes according to ChangeLog) 2002-05-17 13:02:29 +00:00
time Add and enable xchrono 2002-05-14 18:48:36 +00:00
wm Use buildlink.mk's instead of DEPENDS. Proposed in pkg/16807 as a fix 2002-05-16 16:58:05 +00:00
www add & enable elinks 2002-05-17 18:07:14 +00:00
x11 Update to 5.04. 2002-05-16 22:19:54 +00:00
Makefile replace some leading spaces with leading tabs. 2001-12-17 02:33:46 +00:00
Packages.txt Shorter command to generate a TOC. 2002-04-27 02:42:22 +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
TODO Note that pkg/16430 provides smsclient package (though not entirely correct one) 2002-04-21 09:42:42 +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.