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archivers Standardize. 2002-09-12 17:05:15 +00:00
audio Standardize. 2002-09-12 17:05:15 +00:00
benchmarks Standardize. 2002-09-12 17:05:15 +00:00
biology Standardize. 2002-09-12 17:05:15 +00:00
cad Update eagle to 4.09r2. Changes include some device additions to the 2002-09-13 21:35:17 +00:00
chat Declare zenicb is okay for XEmacs 21.{1,5}. 2002-09-15 13:48:49 +00:00
comms Use ghostscript.mk. 2002-09-13 06:53:31 +00:00
converters Use ghostscript.mk. 2002-09-13 06:53:31 +00:00
cross Standardize. 2002-09-12 17:12:36 +00:00
databases Default to slapd=NO if it's not defined. 2002-09-12 10:19:11 +00:00
devel Updated cpuflags to 0.33 2002-09-16 10:43:24 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
editors Add & enable mule-ucs. 2002-09-15 06:08:18 +00:00
emulators Add ld.so.hints file, as requested in pkg/18145. 2002-09-09 19:03:40 +00:00
finance Remove a site that doesn't contain current distfiles. 2002-09-10 18:30:43 +00:00
fonts Add and enable {adobe,ghostscript}-{cidfonts,cmaps}. 2002-09-16 08:42:08 +00:00
games Update to 0.0.5, converted to buildlink2. 2002-09-12 13:30:28 +00:00
graphics Mark package as BROKEN -- it seg faults on start-up. 2002-09-15 21:43:17 +00:00
ham Add RCS Id. 2002-07-02 12:53:10 +00:00
inputmethod Add & enable iiimecf. 2002-09-15 07:02:05 +00:00
lang use PKGNAME_NOREV as DIST_SUBDIR 2002-09-11 18:46:31 +00:00
licenses Add TRPlayer license, in support of soon-to-be-imported TRPlayer package. 2002-08-31 19:51:17 +00:00
mail Updated squirrelmail to 1.2.8 2002-09-16 10:07:39 +00:00
math Since the major of libiconv was increased during the update to 1.8, 2002-09-10 16:06:32 +00:00
mbone Make this package build on NetBSD-1.6 and later 2002-08-16 16:55:59 +00:00
meta-pkgs Update gnome to 1.4.2. Now depends on gnome-core>=1.4.2, which allows 2002-09-14 02:47:59 +00:00
misc Add & enable lookup 2002-09-15 13:34:29 +00:00
mk quote args to pkg_info, to prevent some shell trying to interpret them. 2002-09-16 10:04:39 +00:00
net Updated proftpd to 1.2.6 2002-09-16 09:32:20 +00:00
news Since the major of libiconv was increased during the update to 1.8, 2002-09-10 16:06:32 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel Since the major of libiconv was increased during the update to 1.8, 2002-09-10 16:06:32 +00:00
pkgtools Updated pkgchk to 1.32: 2002-09-13 11:45:03 +00:00
print Add ASCII pTeX 3.0.1 support. 2002-09-16 08:47:27 +00:00
security The shared libraries are installed on Solaris now. 2002-09-09 22:17:00 +00:00
shells Add utmpx support from the tcsh CVS repo (by christos). 2002-09-15 19:16:44 +00:00
sysutils Fix a bug in this module which caused a kernel panic when the module was 2002-09-15 19:25:38 +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. 2002-09-14 18:59:45 +00:00
time Use buildlink2. 2002-09-01 18:58:52 +00:00
wm Updated fvwm2 to 2.4.10 2002-09-16 09:31:48 +00:00
www Add & enable emacs-w3m. 2002-09-16 07:06:19 +00:00
x11 Updated xpmroot to 2.4.10 (to match the current fvwm2 version). There are 2002-09-16 09:31:37 +00:00
Makefile Retire japanese category. 2002-05-31 15:26:50 +00:00
Packages.txt PKG_SYSCONFDIR is not supposed to be settable, so change its setting from 2002-08-26 05:17:39 +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 Kill the ghostscript item. 2002-09-13 07:00:57 +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.