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| author | hubertf <hubertf> | 1998-01-06 19:51:52 +0000 |
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| committer | hubertf <hubertf> | 1998-01-06 19:51:52 +0000 |
| commit | c9561369d578c72efb0959f9e033c7c7b1b21183 (patch) | |
| tree | 0d37ef53e2959541a857a7b9ea6f9b12fa7065b7 /README | |
| parent | be92061daf09121bd07b847f0de2a55e8faaed90 (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-c9561369d578c72efb0959f9e033c7c7b1b21183.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..81181932aed --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Welcome to the NetBSD Packages System +===================================== + +Below this directory, you will find packages to build (compiled) programs +from sources. To do so, cd into one of the sub-directories, and enter: + + make + make install + +To make a precompiled binary package that can be installed on another +system, enter + + make package + +after that. The precompiled package will be placed in the "packages" +subdirectory. A collection of precompiled binary packages can be found +on ftp.netbsd.org in /pub/NetBSD/packages. To install a precompiled +binary package, hand it's filename or an ftp://-URL pointing to it to +pkg_add(1). + +See http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/netbsd/Packages.txt for more +information on the packages system. |