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diff --git a/Packages.txt b/Packages.txt index 1f2f6afbc65..d8b448e202f 100644 --- a/Packages.txt +++ b/Packages.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $NetBSD: Packages.txt,v 1.152 2001/04/25 07:27:44 skrll Exp $ +# $NetBSD: Packages.txt,v 1.153 2001/04/27 15:40:47 hubertf Exp $ ########################################################################### ========================== @@ -178,6 +178,9 @@ packages the "xbase" and "xcomp" distribution sets are required, too. 2.2 Where to get pkgsrc ======================= +There are three ways to get pkgsrc. Either as tar file, via SUP, or via +CVS. All three ways are described here. + To get the package source going, you need to get the pkgsrc.tar.gz file from ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-current/tar_files/pkgsrc.tar.gz and unpack it into /usr/pkgsrc. @@ -188,6 +191,22 @@ it, see the examples in /usr/share/examples/supfiles, and that the directory /usr/pkgsrc does exist. Then, simply start "sup -v /path/to/your/supfile". +To get pkgsrc via CVS, make sure you have cvs installed. If not present on +your system, it can be found as precompiled binary on ftp.netbsd.org. +To do an initial (full) checkout of pkgsrc, do the following steps: + + % setenv CVSROOT anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot + % setenv CVS_RSH ssh + % cd /usr + % cvs checkout pkgsrc + +This will create the "pkgsrc" directory in your /usr, and all the package +source will be stored under /usr/pkgsrc. To update pkgsrc after the initial +checkout, make sure you have CVS_RSH set as above, then do: + + % cd /usr/pkgsrc + % cvs update + 2.3 Fetching distfiles ====================== |