Directory layout of the pkgsrc FTP server
As in other big projects, the directory layout of pkgsrc
is quite complex for newbies. This chapter explains where you
find things on the FTP server. The base directory on
ftp.NetBSD.org is /pub/pkgsrc/.
On other servers it may be different, but inside this directory,
everything should look the same, no matter on which server you
are. This directory contains some subdirectories, which are
explained below.
<filename>bootstrap-pkgsrc</filename>: Bootstrap kits
For those who only want to manage binary packages on
systems other than NetBSD, we provide the package management
tools in a separate, small tar file.
<filename>distfiles</filename>: The distributed source files
The directory distfiles contains lots
of archive files from all pkgsrc packages, which are mirrored
here. The subdirectories are called after their package names
and are used when the distributed files have names that don't
explicitly contain a version number or are otherwise too generic
(for example release.tar.gz).
<filename>iso</filename>: Currently empty
This directory is currently not in use.
<filename>misc</filename>: Miscellaneous things
This directory contains things that individual pkgsrc
developers find worth publishing.
<filename>packages*</filename>: Binary packages
These directories contain binary packages. Those
directories that have a branch name
(200xQy)
contain packages from that particular branch. The directory
packages contains binary packages from
pkgsrc-current. (However, this does not necessarily mean that
the packages are still current anymore.)
Below the packages* directories are
directories that distinguish the packages by operating system
and version, the next directory level specifies the hardware
architecture.
In each of the platform-specific directories, there is a
whole binary packages collection. It has a directory called
All which contains all binary packages.
Besides that, there are various category directories that
contain symbolic links to the real binary packages.
<filename>current</filename>,
<filename>200<replaceable>x</replaceable>Q<replaceable>y</replaceable></filename>:
source packages
These directories contain the real
pkgsrc,
that is the files that define how to create binary packages from
source archives.
The directory pkgsrc contains a
snapshot of the CVS repository, which is updated regularly. The
file pkgsrc.tar.gz contains the same as the
directory, ready to be downloaded as a whole.
In the directories for the quarterly branches, there is an
additional file called
pkgsrc-200xQy.tar.gz,
which contains the state of pkgsrc when it was branched.