$NetBSD: README,v 1.19 2017/03/02 09:51:35 maya Exp $ pkgsrc is a framework for building software on UNIX-like systems. To use, bootstrap using: % cd pkgsrc/bootstrap/ % ./bootstrap build packages, use: % cd pkgsrc/category/package-name % $PREFIX/bin/bmake install Where $PREFIX is where you've chosen to install packages (typically /usr/pkg) Bugs and patches can be filed in the follow link (use category 'pkg'): https://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/sendpr.cgi?gndb=netbsd To fetch the main CVS repository: % cvs -d anoncvs@anoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot checkout -P pkgsrc It's also possible to contribute through pkgsrc wip (work in progress), for more information, see http://pkgsrc.org/wip/users/ Please see doc/pkgsrc.txt for information.