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authorreed <reed>2005-11-08 17:25:30 +0000
committerreed <reed>2005-11-08 17:25:30 +0000
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Mention documentation that is local in pkgsrc tree.
And mention about PATH, MANPATH, and mk.conf.example.
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-$NetBSD: README,v 1.6 2005/08/19 16:12:14 reed Exp $
+$NetBSD: README,v 1.7 2005/11/08 17:25:30 reed Exp $
To try to get pkgsrc working on your system, please try the following
as root:
@@ -34,8 +34,19 @@ 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 http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html for
+See pkgsrc/doc/pkgsrc.txt or
+http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/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 $prefix/man to your MANPATH environment variable, if necessary.
+(See above for --prefix and its default value.)
+
+The bootstrap script will create an example mk.conf file located
+in your work directory as "mk.conf.example". It conatins the
+settings you provided to the bootstrap. Copy it to your
+$sysconfdir directory (see above about --sysconfdir and its default
+value).