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tron e88c6073dc Initial import of new "airportbasestationconfig" package:
Configuration program for Apple's Airport Base Station
2000-11-20 20:39:46 +00:00
archivers Use "MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE". 2000-11-11 14:48:34 +00:00
audio The timeout value for a scsireq is reset by libscsi in scsi_build. So, 2000-11-19 12:34:22 +00:00
benchmarks $() -> ${} 2000-11-16 02:32:17 +00:00
biology Take advantage of bsd.prefs.mk - pointed out by IWAMOTO Toshihiro 2000-09-27 14:14:24 +00:00
cad add and enable ipal-current 2000-11-19 17:06:28 +00:00
comms should not hardcode locale path, or it will choke on Solaris build 2000-11-09 14:17:06 +00:00
converters depend on libwmf>=0.1.17nb1 2000-11-16 18:26:09 +00:00
cross pax -> ${PAX}, chown -> ${CHOWN}, test -> ${TEST} 2000-11-09 13:04:55 +00:00
databases Actually, nuke that empty variable entirely. I haven't the slightest 2000-11-16 16:35:42 +00:00
devel add CONFLICTS with ORBit<=0.5.3 (which included this library) 2000-11-19 14:57:54 +00:00
distfiles Scaled down version of xdaemon_color.png 2000-10-26 02:32:04 +00:00
editors // -> / 2000-11-09 20:19:56 +00:00
emulators Check for DGA lib in X11BASE, based on a suggestion by hubertf. 2000-11-16 19:14:12 +00:00
fonts add caveat. some fonts seem to have wrong font metric. 2000-11-02 04:20:07 +00:00
games Update HOMEPAGE and MASTER_SITES. 2000-11-20 07:32:07 +00:00
graphics add and enable autotrace 2000-11-17 08:06:23 +00:00
ham sort 2000-10-24 10:13:35 +00:00
japanese BUILD_DEFS+= USE_INET6 2000-11-09 05:14:27 +00:00
lang Switch to sun-jre-*. 2000-11-18 00:43:42 +00:00
mail - re-enable using WIDE patch with sendmail8.11.1+3.4W.patch. 2000-11-19 07:44:38 +00:00
math Update abs to 0.8. Changes are improved stability and a better GUI. 2000-11-17 07:36:33 +00:00
mbone Regen. 2000-10-23 04:11:01 +00:00
meta-pkgs sort 2000-10-24 10:13:35 +00:00
misc Make sure that locale files are found on systems without "xpkgwedge". 2000-11-17 20:15:26 +00:00
mk add ukrainian. 2000-11-20 15:04:38 +00:00
net Initial import of new "airportbasestationconfig" package: 2000-11-20 20:39:46 +00:00
news Update to 0.9.6.3 2000-10-30 14:17:19 +00:00
packages Add .cvsignore to stop cvs update listing every distfile and more 1999-11-24 11:53:24 +00:00
parallel remove trailing whitespace 2000-10-21 22:52:37 +00:00
pkgtools Update to pkglint-2.31 2000-11-17 12:45:30 +00:00
plan9 Pass a sane value as PKGSRCDIR. 2000-08-25 02:33:44 +00:00
print remove trailing empty line 2000-11-17 14:03:09 +00:00
security Declare some symbols static in twofish.c (for details see lib/11458). 2000-11-12 14:28:48 +00:00
shells Add ukrainian... 2000-11-20 15:06:36 +00:00
sysutils roller-1.7 has better postfix message parsing 2000-11-18 22:01:43 +00:00
templates Change substitution of %%PKG%% so it's expanded to ${PKGNAME} directly, not 2000-11-09 23:46:29 +00:00
textproc Take packlist from Text/Template, not IMAP/Admin! 2000-11-14 13:44:09 +00:00
www upgrade to 2.6. pull IPv6 patch from ftp.kame.net (maintenance reason) 2000-11-20 05:12:38 +00:00
x11 Feh. Make this depend on a *specific* version of python until the path name 2000-11-20 14:41:18 +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 USE_CURSES logic moved to bsd.prefs.mk 2000-11-02 03:03:39 +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.