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diff --git a/doc/pkgsrc.txt b/doc/pkgsrc.txt index d74f5324ec0..0a8b446d296 100644 --- a/doc/pkgsrc.txt +++ b/doc/pkgsrc.txt @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ I. The pkgsrc user's guide 2.1. Getting pkgsrc for the first time - 2.1.1. As tar file + 2.1.1. As tar archive 2.1.2. Via anonymous CVS 2.2. Keeping pkgsrc up-to-date @@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ Table of Contents 2.1. Getting pkgsrc for the first time - 2.1.1. As tar file + 2.1.1. As tar archive 2.1.2. Via anonymous CVS 2.2. Keeping pkgsrc up-to-date @@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ Table of Contents 2.1. Getting pkgsrc for the first time - 2.1.1. As tar file + 2.1.1. As tar archive 2.1.2. Via anonymous CVS 2.2. Keeping pkgsrc up-to-date @@ -844,14 +844,26 @@ of the stable branches are built from the year and the quarter, for example The second step is to decide how you want to download pkgsrc. You can get it as a tar file or via CVS. Both ways are described here. -2.1.1. As tar file +Note that tar archive contains CVS working copy. Thus you can switch to using +CVS at any later time. -The primary download location for all pkgsrc files is ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/ -pkgsrc/. There are a number of subdirectories for different purposes, which are +Note also that quarterly branch is not frozen in stone. It receives critical +updates. + +2.1.1. As tar archive + +The primary download location for all pkgsrc files is http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub +/pkgsrc/ or ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/ (it points to the same location). +There are a number of subdirectories for different purposes, which are described in detail in Appendix C, Directory layout of the pkgsrc FTP server. -The tar file for the current branch is in the directory current and is called -pkgsrc.tar.gz. It is autogenerated daily. +The tar archive for the current branch is in the directory current and is +called pkgsrc.tar.gz. It is autogenerated daily. + +To save download time we provide bzip2- and xz-compressed archives which are +published at pkgsrc.tar.bz2 and pkgsrc.tar.xz respectively. + +You can fetch the same files using FTP. The tar file for the stable branch 2009Q1 is in the directory pkgsrc-2009Q1 and is also called pkgsrc-2009Q1.tar.gz. @@ -863,6 +875,8 @@ $ ftp ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-20xxQy/pkgsrc-20xxQy.tar.gz Where pkgsrc-20xxQy is the stable branch to be downloaded, for example, " pkgsrc-2009Q1". +You can use fetch it also using "wget", "curl", or your web browser. + Then, extract it with: $ tar -xzf pkgsrc-20xxQy.tar.gz -C /usr |