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I bootstrapped pkgsrc on non-netbsd os, and building applications from source and running the binaries both work.

the /usr/pkg directory contains bin/ etc/ include/ lib/ man/ sbin/ share/ directories, and I can't find any documentation about how packages built with pkgsrc/bmake become systemwide.

Is the /usr/pkg directory symlinked to /usr? Is there a utility used on top of bmake for installing applications from the pkgsrc tree?

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  • It appears from some sources that adding the `bin` and `sbin` folders to the default pathname integrates the `/usr/pkg` directory with the rest of the system http://www.perkin.org.uk/pages/pkgsrc-binary-packages-for-illumos.html – evrom May 22 '14 at 06:11

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Your comment is correct, you need to add /usr/pkg/bin and /usr/pkg/sbin to your PATH.

You can do that either by modifying your user path in .profile/.cshrc, or system wide by modifying the system versions of the same, usually in /etc.

Eric Schnoebelen
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If you're still interested. There is a very useful package pkgtools/rc.subr that enables you to use rc.d startup scripts, that are provided by some packages.

For example www/apache22 provides a startup script (it is installed to /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/apache by default). To be able to use it on non-NetBSD systems, you need to copy it to /etc/rc.d (like it's done on NetBSD), and install pkgtools/rc.subr package.

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