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| author | maya <maya@pkgsrc.org> | 2017-03-02 09:51:35 +0000 |
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| committer | maya <maya@pkgsrc.org> | 2017-03-02 09:51:35 +0000 |
| commit | 5c80368663bf4030bbbf5968d471c74c80552e04 (patch) | |
| tree | 186fb3030fb4e0b2de61063a9dc5d0711a98dc4d /README | |
| parent | cb06af01760fdb53a1822416beb14a94e75678f9 (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-5c80368663bf4030bbbf5968d471c74c80552e04.tar.gz | |
Make top dir README a little more helpful.
This file is very prominent on github, so use this opportunity to give a
quick intro to pkgsrc.
mention main repo location so it's obvious even when using a fork & bug
report address.
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 23 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,24 @@ -$NetBSD: README,v 1.18 2005/05/07 22:18:28 wiz Exp $ +$NetBSD: README,v 1.19 2017/03/02 09:51:35 maya Exp $ + +pkgsrc is a framework for building software on UNIX-like systems. + +To use, bootstrap using: +% cd pkgsrc/bootstrap/ +% ./bootstrap + +build packages, use: +% cd pkgsrc/category/package-name +% $PREFIX/bin/bmake install + +Where $PREFIX is where you've chosen to install packages (typically /usr/pkg) + +Bugs and patches can be filed in the follow link (use category 'pkg'): +https://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/sendpr.cgi?gndb=netbsd + +To fetch the main CVS repository: +% cvs -d anoncvs@anoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot checkout -P pkgsrc + +It's also possible to contribute through pkgsrc wip (work in progress), for +more information, see http://pkgsrc.org/wip/users/ Please see doc/pkgsrc.txt for information. |