Re: Regarding MESSAGEs during pkg_add installation of meta packages

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

Am 22.03.25 um 15:35 schrieb Solvable Hat:
> I glanced https://pkgsrc.org/wip/ <https://pkgsrc.org/wip/> and https:// 
> wip.pkgsrc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pkgsrc-wip.git;a=tree <https:// 
> wip.pkgsrc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pkgsrc-wip.git;a=tree> , I 
> understood nothing. It is totally different from github and gitlab.

It's Git but not GitHub. So you can clone the repo with "git clone". If 
you want to push to it, you need to ask wiz@ for an account and send him 
an SSH key for authentication.

> Now, one thing I don't understand, after cloning pkgsrc-win git repo, 
> what should I do? I opened a package, 7-zip-zstd <https:// 
> wip.pkgsrc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pkgsrc-wip.git;a=tree;f=7-zip- 
> zstd;hb=HEAD> , I did not understand how a package is so small, i.e., 
> lines of code.

Think of pkgsrc as a set of recipes for building software. It doesn't 
contain, say, 7-zip-std itself, but a procedure for downloading the 
sources and building it.

Take a look at https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/, in particular 
Chapter 12 and the following ones: 
https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/components.html

You should start by downloading the sources for pkgsrc itself. Then you 
can clone the wip repo into a "wip" subdirectory. Then bootstrap pkgsrc 
and try "make package-install" in the directory you mentioned, and see 
what happens.

Does that make sense?

--
Benny