>Number:         9580
>Category:       install
>Synopsis:       INSTALL is vague about pkgsrc installation location
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    install-manager (NetBSD system installation bug manager)
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Mar  8 14:27:01 2000
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     John Hawkinson
>Organization:
	MIT
>Release:        NetBSD 1.4.1
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD zorkmid.mit.edu 1.4.1 NetBSD 1.4.1 (ZORKMID) #63: Wed Mar 8 04:52:39 EST 2000 jhawk@zorkmid.mit.edu:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ZORKMID i386


>Description:
	The text in INSTALL is not sufficiently clear about where to
extract pkgsrc.tgz; this resulted in my (perhaps in part due to reading
the document clearly) extracting pkgsrc.tgz in the root filesystem
rather than in /usr/pkgsrc.

	It'd be much nicer if INSTALL were as clear about how to extract
pkgsrc.tgz as it is about the distribution sets.
>How-To-Repeat:
	Install NetBSD for the first time since the pkg system was
	around.
>Fix:
	Here's a doc fix. It's against 1.4.1 and needs a little bit of
	tweaking for the patch to apply to -current.


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RCS file: distrib/notes/common/RCS/postinstall,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -c -r1.1 -r1.2
*** distrib/notes/common/postinstall	2000/03/08 21:57:22	1.1
--- distrib/notes/common/postinstall	2000/03/08 22:04:27	1.2
***************
*** 185,195 ****
  Package sources for compiling packages can be obtained by
  retrieving the file
  .Lk ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/pkgsrc.tar.gz
! and extracting it into
! .Pa /usr/pkgsrc .
! See
  .Pa /usr/pkgsrc/README
! then for more information.
  .It
  Misc
  .Bl -bullet
--- 185,198 ----
  Package sources for compiling packages can be obtained by
  retrieving the file
  .Lk ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/pkgsrc.tar.gz
! They should then be extracted into
! .Pa /usr/pkgsrc
! with the command:
! .D1 Ic "cat pkgsrc.tar.gz | gunzip | (mkdir /usr/pkgsrc; 
! .D1 Ic "cd /usr/pkgsrc; tar xpf - )
! After extracting, then see
  .Pa /usr/pkgsrc/README
! for more information.
  .It
  Misc
  .Bl -bullet
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: