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Pkgsrc

Checking out pkgsrc

mkdir /path/to/root/of/local/cvs/sandbox
cd /path/to/root/of/local/cvs/sandbox

setenv CVS_RSH ssh
setenv CVSROOT anoncvs@anoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot

cvs checkout -l pkgsrc		# check out only a few files to verify setup
cd pkgsrc			# this directory should have been created
cvs update -PAd			# get everything else (this will take awhile)
cvs update -PAd	-r pkgsrc-2008Q1	# get everything from a specific revision

Bootstrapping pkgsrc

cd pkgsrc/bootstrap
./bootstrap

`Installing a package`

cd pkgsrc/editors/emacs
make
make install
make clean

`Making a binary package`

cd pkgsrc/editors/emacs
make package


Additional resources
Overall description of pkgsrc
Pkgsrc guide