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wiz ddf436e92a Update to 1.8.
Changes since 1.7:
* The iconv program has new options -l, -c, -s.
* The iconv program is internationalized.
* Added C99 converter.
* Added KOI8-T converter.
* New configuration option --enable-extra-encodings that enables a bunch of
  additional encodings; see the README for details.
* Updated the ISO-8859-16 converter.
* Upgraded BIG5-HKSCS, EUC-TW, ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT converters to
  Unicode 3.2.
* Upgraded EUC-KR, CP949, JOHAB converters to include the Euro sign.
* Changed the ARMSCII-8 converter.
* Extended the EUC-JP encoder so that YEN SIGN characters don't cause failures
  in Shift_JIS to EUC-JP conversion.
* The JAVA converter now handles characters outside the Unicode BMP correctly.
* Fixed a bug in the CP1255, CP1258, TCVN decoders: The base characters of
  combining characters could be dropped at the end of the conversion buffer.
* Fixed a bug in the transliteration that could lead to excessive memory
  allocations in libintl when transliteration was needed.
* Portability to BSD/OS and SCO 3.2.5.
2002-08-20 11:52:10 +00:00
archivers Add a catch-all for SunOS to force using the pkgsrc versions of the 2002-08-07 19:29:29 +00:00
audio Update to 0.18.0. 2002-08-20 11:39:07 +00:00
benchmarks add missing header file. fixes recently noted compilation problems on 2002-08-09 02:01:55 +00:00
biology Small pkglint white-space complaint. 2002-06-07 11:34:40 +00:00
cad Mark this package as NetBSD 1.4 and 1.5 only because it cannot be built 2002-08-17 05:59:00 +00:00
chat Update "xchat" and "xchat-gnome" package to version 1.8.10. Changes 2002-08-19 19:59:36 +00:00
comms Bump PKGREVISION and regen distinfo - the author apparently decided to 2002-08-18 06:34:54 +00:00
converters Update to 1.8. 2002-08-20 11:52:10 +00:00
cross Change MAINTAINER from tv at netbsd dot org to packages at netbsd dot org 2002-08-01 02:37:41 +00:00
databases Update to 2.0.25. Fixes many random bugs. 2002-08-19 19:29:18 +00:00
devel update to 1.17 (old distfile no longer available) 2002-08-20 08:30:45 +00:00
distfiles These files belong to $MASTER_SITE_LOCAL - moved them there! 2000-12-05 00:23:05 +00:00
editors Try to fix bulk build failure, and add a missing file to PLIST. 2002-08-07 12:04:34 +00:00
emulators Rather than mark it as broken on all versions, use the ONLY_FOR_PLATFORM 2002-08-16 16:05:29 +00:00
finance Adapt to using perl-5.8.0. Perl 5.8.0 removes the need for libperl as 2002-07-22 22:00:49 +00:00
fonts The MASTER_SITE for cyberbase-ttf and cyberbit-ttf seems to be unreachable 2002-08-19 08:44:24 +00:00
games Crank PKGREVISION. 2002-08-19 15:02:50 +00:00
graphics Update ns-flash to 5.0.50 for i386. Changes are bugfixes only. 2002-08-20 05:01:59 +00:00
ham Add RCS Id. 2002-07-02 12:53:10 +00:00
inputmethod Create the Freewnn user and group in this package - they default to 2002-08-12 09:44:15 +00:00
lang It seems that the new combo patchfile dropped the silly `nb1' suffix 2002-08-19 18:20:08 +00:00
licenses Add Sun Community Source License, Version 3.0 Jini Technology Specific 2002-05-31 20:29:31 +00:00
mail add dependancy with gdk-pixbuf. sylpheed binary is acutually linked against 2002-08-19 03:13:17 +00:00
math Fix oversight in last commit. 2002-08-12 19:45:37 +00:00
mbone Make this package build on NetBSD-1.6 and later 2002-08-16 16:55:59 +00:00
meta-pkgs Make last change less intrusive: build "gnumeric" version 1.0.0 or newer 2002-08-12 19:00:36 +00:00
misc Beautify: correct tab-stops. 2002-08-16 02:50:02 +00:00
mk Add CVS_FLAGS that will be passed to 'cvs update' before builds. 2002-08-20 02:17:56 +00:00
net deal with optional installation of ipv6.h on non-ipv6 platforms. 2002-08-20 01:38:16 +00:00
news enable generation of message-ID and use of msg-id-cache. 2002-08-04 15:06:56 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel avoid installing a .orig file. Fixes a leftover file found in last bulk build 2002-08-08 09:40:38 +00:00
pkgtools Make patchdiff following package's PATCHDIR setting: useful when dealing with 2002-08-14 16:30:06 +00:00
print fix compilation on alpha by decreasing optimization level on a handful 2002-08-16 10:36:25 +00:00
security Let build on sparc v7. 2002-08-19 18:34:54 +00:00
shells Zsh 4.0.6. 2002-08-15 06:54:54 +00:00
sysutils Make lsof 4.64 build under 1.5 again. Once 4.65 comes out, this patch 2002-08-19 22:52:24 +00:00
templates Fix the location of DESCR for the readme files 2001-11-03 03:26:08 +00:00
textproc update to 1.95.4 2002-08-20 11:46:49 +00:00
time Move time management related Perl5 packages to category "time". 2002-07-05 06:58:25 +00:00
wm add missing patch (forgot to cvs add). Thanks Thomas! 2002-08-11 13:15:26 +00:00
www Sitecopy 0.11.4. New features are, 2002-08-20 08:52:33 +00:00
x11 Plug the memory leak introduced into ksysguardd. Fixes pkg/17962 from 2002-08-20 11:48:23 +00:00
Makefile Retire japanese category. 2002-05-31 15:26:50 +00:00
Packages.txt Remove the setting of BATCH=yes and DEPENDS_TARGET=bulk-install from 2002-08-12 14:23:47 +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
TODO Add one more TODO item -- a version of the graphics/gd package which does 2002-05-20 22:07:09 +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.