Subject: RE: What do they all do?
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Michael G. Schabert <mikeride@prez.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/06/1999 10:23:54
>> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/README.html
>>
>> This top-level document contains a list of various
>> categories for all
>> the NetBSD package sources, and each category lists
>> the individual
>> packages available, with a 1-line description of
>> that package's
>> function.  (and if you download and install the
>> pkgsrc tarball, you
>> get all the same browsable pkgsrc information right
>> there on your
>> local NetBSD system!)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> - Michael Maciolek
>
>  I thought you had to do a "make readme" in the /usr/pkgsrc directory
>to get that browsable listing
>of the packages on you local NetBSD system. Is that
>still true?

I believe that you have to do that if you get the pkgsrc in source form,
but if you get the pkgsrc.tgz file, I think that it's already there. I
personally sup, so I'm not entirely positive on that one.

Mike
Bikers don't *DO* taglines.