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jlam e448451639 Update xboard to 4.1.0. Changes from version 4.0.3 include importing many
more features from Winboard Plus 4.0.8 into Xboard, better interfacing with
zippy, and the usual crop of bugfixes.
2000-10-15 02:14:20 +00:00
archivers change name of loop variable to shut up pkglint 2000-10-10 11:50:42 +00:00
audio Don't build threaded version just because "pth" happens to be installed 2000-10-13 19:29:34 +00:00
benchmarks Install only the files we really want, but remove all directories we create. 2000-08-28 23:03:55 +00:00
biology Take advantage of bsd.prefs.mk - pointed out by IWAMOTO Toshihiro 2000-09-27 14:14:24 +00:00
cad move the docs out of FILESDIR to a seperate tarball instead of making the 2000-09-01 15:05:56 +00:00
comms make this build on alpha 2000-10-10 12:12:10 +00:00
converters Two minor bug fixes in distfile, so the author didn't change the version 2000-09-05 10:35:26 +00:00
cross Mark this package BROKEN, with an informative message. 2000-10-13 13:02:02 +00:00
databases Add an shlib_version file in order to build with newer bsd.lib.mk files. 2000-10-01 11:45:41 +00:00
devel It seems the info-files distributed with libtool 1.3.5 are broken. 2000-10-14 16:11:35 +00:00
distfiles Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
editors Try chasing the changing pkgs on xemacs.org (this time: sync with ftp 2000-10-05 09:37:06 +00:00
emulators Group logical expressions correctly. 2000-10-14 00:17:18 +00:00
fonts repair a font glyph for kaname font. the local patch will be integrated 2000-09-05 02:52:27 +00:00
games Update xboard to 4.1.0. Changes from version 4.0.3 include importing many 2000-10-15 02:14:20 +00:00
graphics Update to 1.39, to work around changed distfiles with same name. 2000-10-08 18:27:09 +00:00
ham Bugfixes to build dpbox on netbsd-alpha platform 2000-09-25 16:22:24 +00:00
japanese Fix for make readme, suggested by mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu. 2000-09-28 15:51:19 +00:00
lang Only grab global symbols from object files. 2000-10-06 11:08:31 +00:00
mail Update home page URL. 2000-10-08 07:05:39 +00:00
math NetBSD/alpha doesn't have <machine/fpu.h> or ieeefp*() functions, so don't 2000-10-02 10:58:51 +00:00
mbone Reorganize crypto handling, as discussed on tech-pkg. Remove all 2000-09-09 19:40:14 +00:00
meta-pkgs seperate -> separate; remove trailing whitespace 2000-09-03 10:35:33 +00:00
misc No longer needed as we use our fine curses now. 2000-09-26 02:27:08 +00:00
mk Add knob (SHLIB_HANDLING=YES/NO) for packages to specify if they want 2000-10-13 23:18:00 +00:00
net Missed one... 2000-10-13 19:10:03 +00:00
news Add machine config for arm32 2000-10-12 19:17:03 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel define SSH and pass down to the build environment to make sure the right 2000-10-10 19:26:15 +00:00
pkgtools Update pkglint to 2.28 - Add '-V' to lintpkgsrc - check binary packages 2000-10-12 15:07:41 +00:00
plan9 Pass a sane value as PKGSRCDIR. 2000-08-25 02:33:44 +00:00
print use ${RM} -f, as acroread.orig may not exist 2000-10-14 22:59:01 +00:00
security Update xdm-krb4 to 3.3.6.2. 2000-10-12 13:49:44 +00:00
shells Take advantage of bsd.prefs.mk. 2000-10-04 10:22:56 +00:00
sysutils Update to 1.5: 2000-10-13 16:09:49 +00:00
templates Add the glue for showing any security vulnerabilities to the README.html 2000-09-19 19:29:11 +00:00
textproc Okay, do this the Hard Way. Activate the size_t instantiation block if 2000-10-09 15:55:26 +00:00
www Update to 1.3, http_proxy support incorporated into distribution. 2000-10-14 18:09:55 +00:00
x11 s/uvm/uwm/. My fingers! :) 2000-10-13 01:40:58 +00:00
Makefile Revert last change. I only tested this on netbsd-1-4; it doesn't seem to 2000-09-07 02:29:40 +00:00
Packages.txt Document SHLIB_HANDLING in misc section where it talks about ldconfig. 2000-10-13 23:21:53 +00:00
pkglocate fix to really exit if glimpse is not installed 2000-04-11 16:59:17 +00:00
README No paragraph (picking nits). 2000-07-23 18:02:33 +00:00

$NetBSD: README,v 1.11 2000/07/23 18:02:33 fredb 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/mk.conf.example file
provides some examples for customisation.

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 where you found this README, or in your top-level pkgsrc
directory.