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As in other big projects, the directory layout of pkgsrc
is quite complex for newbies. This chapter explains where you
find things on the FTP server. The base directory on
ftp.NetBSD.org is /pub/pkgsrc/.
On other servers it may be different, but inside this directory,
everything should look the same, no matter on which server you
are. This directory contains some subdirectories, which are
explained below.
The directory distfiles contains lots
of archive files from all pkgsrc packages, which are mirrored
here. The subdirectories are called after their package names
and are used when the distributed files have names that don't
explicitly contain a version number or are otherwise too generic
(for example release.tar.gz).
This directory contains things that individual pkgsrc developers find worth publishing.
This directory contains binary packages for the various
platforms that are supported by pkgsrc.
Each subdirectory is of the form OPSYS/ARCH/OSVERSION_TAG. The meaning of these variables is:
OPSYS is the name of the
operating system for which the packages have been built. The
name is taken from the output of the uname
command, so it may differ from the one you are used to
hear.
ARCH is the hardware
architecture of the platform for which the packages have been
built. It also includes the ABI (Application
Binary Interface) for platforms that have several of
them.
OSVERSION is the version of
the operating system. Typically it is the version defining an
ABI, e.g. 9.0.
TAG is either
20
for a stable branch, or YYQNcurrent for packages
built from the HEAD branch. The latter should only be used when
the packages are updated on a regular basis.
The rationale for this scheme is that users can first search by OPSYS and ARCH, since these are more or less unchangeable. After that, there is a management set of directories with OSVERSION and TAG.
See also README.md in
packages for more details, including
about symlinks.
In each of these directories, there is a
whole binary packages collection for a specific platform. It has a directory called
All which contains all binary packages.
Here are the reports from bulk builds, for those who want
to fix packages that didn't build on some of the platforms. The
structure of subdirectories should look like the one in Section D.3, “packages: Binary packages”.
These directories contain the “real” pkgsrc, that is the files that define how to create binary packages from source archives.
Each of the current,
stable and
pkgsrc-20
directories share the same structure. They each contain a
xxQypkgsrc directory and
pkgsrc.tar.{bz,gz,xz} file.
The directory pkgsrc contains a
snapshot of the CVS repository, which is updated regularly. The
file pkgsrc.tar.{bz,gz,xz} contains the same
as the directory, ready to be downloaded as a whole.
The current directory contains files
related to the HEAD branch of the CVS repository.
In this directory there is an additional file called
pkgsrc-readmes.tar.{bz,gz,xz} that contains
all pkgsrc READMEs with information about
categories and packages.
The stable directory is a symlink to
the latest
pkgsrc-20.
xxQy
The
pkgsrc-20.
directories contain files related to the
xxQy-20
stable branch of the CVS repository. In these directories there is
an additional file called
xxQypkgsrc-20,
which contains the state of pkgsrc when it was branched.xxQy.tar.{bz,gz,xz}