pkgsrc

History

rillig 470ab0a92f Removed the warning about pkg_add or pkg_delete "not running as root" completely. It only made the code more bloated, and a user trying to add or delete packages would get lots of "Permission denied" warnings anyway.		2007-09-08 09:58:14 +00:00
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bootstrap	Removed the warning about pkg_add or pkg_delete "not running as root"	2007-09-08 09:58:14 +00:00
cleanup	Fixed shell quoting.	2005-05-15 10:55:06 +00:00
darwindiskimage	If creating a disk image on Darwin 7.0 or newer, create a case-sensitive	2006-08-30 04:36:10 +00:00
macpkg.pmproj.in	Replace hardcoded date with a token for sed to update.	2007-05-23 05:00:40 +00:00
mkbinarykit	Allow mkbinarykit to pass down --compiler.	2007-08-01 14:03:49 +00:00
README	Update URLs for Documentation->docs move.	2007-07-02 19:05:29 +00:00
README.AIX	wording tweaks	2005-07-29 00:56:24 +00:00
README.Darwin	Bump suggested disk image size to 1GB.	2007-01-22 13:07:05 +00:00
README.FreeBSD	Update comment about supported versions, I'm using pkgsrc under	2004-07-31 04:06:13 +00:00
README.HPUX	Improve HP-UX specific documentation	2007-06-30 10:54:37 +00:00
README.Interix	Update URLs for Documentation->docs move.	2007-07-02 19:05:29 +00:00
README.IRIX	fix typo	2006-09-02 11:15:49 +00:00
README.IRIX5.3	gcc 3.4.6 is known to compile on IRIX 5.3	2006-09-03 14:30:26 +00:00
README.Linux	note that icc 8.1 needs to be built with -i-static.	2005-02-16 11:02:50 +00:00
README.MacOSX	note that you need -ma to bootstrap with xlc.	2004-10-24 11:17:45 +00:00
README.OpenBSD	I'm currently using pkgsrc under OpenBSD 3.5, so update the comment	2004-07-31 04:07:03 +00:00
README.OSF1	update OSF1 bootstrap documentation	2007-04-20 13:16:01 +00:00
README.Solaris	Update URLs for Documentation->docs move.	2007-07-02 19:05:29 +00:00
testbootstrap	Also capture stderr to the log.	2004-08-22 05:02:49 +00:00

README

$NetBSD: README,v 1.9 2007/07/02 19:05:29 tnn Exp $

To try to get pkgsrc working on your system, please try the following
as root:

# ./bootstrap 
    [ --workdir <workdir> ]
    [ --prefix <prefix> ]
    [ --pkgdbdir <pkgdbdir> ]
    [ --sysconfdir <sysconfdir> ]
    [ --varbase <varbase> ]
    [ --ignore-case-check ]
    [ --ignore-user-check ]
    [ --preserve-path ]
    [ --help ]

The defaults for the arguments are as follows:

	--prefix	/usr/pkg
	--pkgdbdir	/var/db/pkg
	--sysconfdir	/usr/pkg/etc
	--varbase	/var
	--workdir	work

It is perfectly acceptable to place 'pkgdbdir' under 'prefix'.

The working directory will be created if it doesn't exist and has to be
writable by the user executing ./bootstrap.

Make sure that you have a working C compiler and make(1) binary in
your path.  Please note that on some systems (IRIX and SunOS, for example),
the bootstrap script will look into a number of common directories for
alternative implementations of some tools.  If they are found, these
directories will be prepended to the PATH variable, unless the
'--preserve-path' flag is given.

See pkgsrc/doc/pkgsrc.txt or
http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/packages.html for
more information about bootstrapping and using pkgsrc.

We'd be very interested in hearing of any successes or failures on
"unknown" (to us) systems.

Please remember to add $prefix/bin to your PATH environment variable
and $prefix/man to your MANPATH environment variable, if necessary.
(See above for --prefix and its default value.)

The bootstrap script will create an example mk.conf file located
in your work directory as "mk.conf.example". It contains the
settings you provided to the bootstrap. Copy it to your
$sysconfdir directory (see above about --sysconfdir and its default
value).