README file for Darwin pkg
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The leatest release of Darwin pkg is always available from:

http://alice.iscanet.com/~rlucia/devel/darwin_pkg/files/darwin_pkg-latest.tar.gz


DOCUMENTATION FOR DARWIN PKG
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Darwin pkg consists of a small package of libraries and tools that will allow
to install and use FreeBSD's pkg_* tools. These tools are the building block
of the Darwin Ports project aimed at using the FreeBSD Ports Collection on
Mac OS X.

The source code of Darwin pkg has been extracted from a "recent" FreeBSD
checkout (RELENG_6 as of 2006/02/27). Some slight patches have been applied
to allow the tools to compile on Darwin 8.8.0 (as of Mac OS X 10.4.8).

The components of Darwin pkg (and that will be installed) are:
  - libfetch (high-level library for retrieving/uploading files using URLs)
  - libmd (some crypto checksum functions)
  - pkg_add(1)
  - pkg_check(1) pkg_sign(1)
  - pkg_create(1)
  - pkg_delete(1)
  - pkg_info(1)
  - pkg_version(1)

Please refer to their man pages for further details.


COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
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    Darwin pkg is distributed under the BSD License. See the COPYRIGHT file.


