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PACKAGES(7)         NetBSD Miscellaneous Information Manual        PACKAGES(7)


NAME

     packages -- NetBSD user package variables


DESCRIPTION

     This manual page is obsolete.  Please refer the pkgsrc guide at
     /usr/pkgsrc/doc/pkgsrc.txt or /usr/pkgsrc/doc/pkgsrc.html.  The contents
     of this manual page will be moved there as time permits.

     This manual page describes the variables that users of the NetBSD pack-
     ages system can set to alter the configuration of the package system, and
     individual packages.


PACKAGE SPECIFIC VARIABLES

     This section documents variables that typically apply to an individual
     package.  Non-Boolean variables without defaults are *mandatory*.

           SCRIPTDIR
                     A directory containing any auxiliary scripts.  The
                     default is ${.CURDIR}/scripts.

           PKGDIR    A direction containing any package creation files.  The
                     default is ${.CURDIR}/pkg.

           PKG_DBDIR
                     Where package installation is recorded.  The default is
                     /var/db/pkg.

           FORCE_PKG_REGISTER
                     If set, it will overwrite any existing package registra-
                     tion information in ${PKG_DBDIR}/${PKGNAME}.

           NO_MTREE  If set, will not invoke mtree from bsd.pkg.mk from the
                     ``install'' target.

           MTREE_FILE
                     The name of the mtree file.  The default is
                     /etc/mtree/BSD.x11.dist if USE_IMAKE or USE_X11BASE is
                     set, or /etc/mtree/BSD.pkg.dist otherwise.

           NO_BUILD  Use a dummy (do-nothing) build target.

           NO_CONFIGURE
                     Use a dummy (do-nothing) configure target.

           NO_INSTALL
                     Use a dummy (do-nothing) install target.

           NO_PACKAGE
                     Use a dummy (do-nothing) package target.

           NO_PKG_REGISTER
                     Don't register a package install as a package.

           NO_DEPENDS
                     Don't verify build of dependencies.

           SCRIPTS_ENV
                     Additional environment variables passed to scripts in
                     ${SCRIPTDIR} executed by bsd.pkg.mk.


SPECIAL VARIABLES

     Variables to change if you want a special behavior:

           PKG_VERBOSE
                     If set, print out more information about the automatic
                     manual page handling, and package deletion (see the
                     ``install'', ``deinstall'' and ``update'' targets), and
                     also sets PATCH_DEBUG as well.


PACKAGE TARGETS

           mirror-distfiles
                     Mirror the distfile(s) if they are freely re-dis-
                     tributable.  If NO_SRC_ON_FTP is set in the package's
                     Makefile (usually to ${RESTRICTED}) then that reason is
                     printed, and the distfile is not mirrored.

     Default sequence for ``all'' is:  fetch checksum extract patch configure
     build.

     NEVER override the ``regular'' targets unless you want to open a major
     can of worms.


SEE ALSO

     make(1), mk.conf(5), ${PKGSRCDIR}/mk/defaults/mk.conf and

     Documentation on the NetBSD Package System.  ${PKGSRCDIR}/doc/pkgsrc.txt


HISTORY

     This manual page is based upon the comments in the bsd.pkg.mk file, as
     distributed with NetBSD.  The sources to this are far and varied across
     all free BSD projects.

NetBSD 4.0                    September 14, 2006                    NetBSD 4.0