On  4 Nov, Andrew Diller wrote:
> At 12:02 PM 11/4/97 -0500, you wrote:
> 
>>	ftp://ftp.mars.org/pub/hfs/hfsutils.tar.gz
>>
>>There were some changes to the Makefile that were necessary to get it
>>to work under NetBSD.  I've made up a package for it that uses the new
>>pkg subsystem in 1.3, so I can send that to you if you'd like.
>>
> 
> What are packages? Is it a type of install system or some sort of kernel
> modules??
> 
> -andy
> 

Packages are NetBSD's take on the FreeBSD ports collection.  It's a
system of wrapper Makefiles which can automatically download, build,
and install a software package.  See

	http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook25.html#27

for a deeper explanation of how it all works.  It's all pretty nifty,
and a lot of software has been added to the FreeBSD ports collection
already.  We should expect to see a lot of it to migrate over to the
NetBSD package collection soon.

-- 
   Johnny C. Lam
   Department of Statistics			lamj@stat.cmu.edu
   Carnegie Mellon University			http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~lamj/

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