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author | hubertf <hubertf@pkgsrc.org> | 1998-01-03 06:18:00 +0000 |
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committer | hubertf <hubertf@pkgsrc.org> | 1998-01-03 06:18:00 +0000 |
commit | 14e3a86bd6b2d82435405a97f73e1efac1174f2f (patch) | |
tree | 7d6dc2ec3ba77f156c7fb16f4cc165e1bd505bea /Packages.txt | |
parent | 695365b51cb60ed3d2efdc7e6757c077842d664c (diff) | |
download | pkgsrc-14e3a86bd6b2d82435405a97f73e1efac1174f2f.tar.gz |
Concentrate FreeBSD credits, note what we call a port, some minor fixes.
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diff --git a/Packages.txt b/Packages.txt index cade1393978..50390845474 100644 --- a/Packages.txt +++ b/Packages.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $NetBSD: Packages.txt,v 1.8 1998/01/01 05:52:52 hubertf Exp $ +# $NetBSD: Packages.txt,v 1.9 1998/01/03 06:18:00 hubertf Exp $ ########################################################################### ========================== @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Table of contents: ================== - grep -B1 '^.====' Packages-new.txt | egrep -v '^.[-=]' + grep -B1 '^.====' Packages.txt | egrep -v '^.[-=]' 0 Intro @@ -20,17 +20,18 @@ Table of contents: There is a lot of software freely available for Unix based systems, which usually runs on NetBSD, too, sometimes with some modifications. The NetBSD -packages collection - which is derived from the FreeBSD ports collection - -incorporates any such changes necessary to make that software run on -NetBSD, and makes the installation (and reinstallation) of the software -package easy by means of a single command. +packages collection incorporates any such changes necessary to make that +software run on NetBSD, and makes the installation (and reinstallation) of +the software package easy by means of a single command. -The NetBSD package system - which is derived from the FreeBSD ports system -- is used to enable such freely available third-party software to be built -easily on NetBSD hosts. Once the software has been built, it is manipulated -with the pkg_* tools so that installation and de-installation, printing of -an inventory of all installed packages and retrieval of one-line comments -or more verbose descriptions are simple. +The NetBSD package system is used to enable such freely available +third-party software to be built easily on NetBSD hosts. Once the software +has been built, it is manipulated with the pkg_* tools so that installation +and de-installation, printing of an inventory of all installed packages and +retrieval of one-line comments or more verbose descriptions are simple. + +Both the NetBSD packages collection and the NetBSD package system are +derived from FreeBSD. 0.1 Overview @@ -69,6 +70,7 @@ is a description of all the terminology used within this document: * Port: This is the term used by FreeBSD people for what we call a package. + In NetBSD terminology, "port" refers to a different architecture. * Precompiled (binary) package: A set of binaries built by the NetBSD package system from a distfile @@ -1192,7 +1194,6 @@ Appendix A: build logs Appendix B: Layout of the FTP server's package archive ====================================================== -Proposal: Layout for precompiled binary packges on ftp.netbsd.org: /pub/NetBSD/packages/ |