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@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Reasons you might want to avoid bup
    1.5.3.1.
  
  - It currently only works on Linux, MacOS X >= 10.4,
-   Solaris, or Windows (with Cygwin).  Patches to support
+   NetBSD, Solaris, or Windows (with Cygwin).  Patches to support
    other platforms are welcome.
    
    
@@ -92,18 +92,32 @@ From source
         git clone git://github.com/apenwarr/bup
 
  - Install the needed python libraries (including the development
-   libraries).  On Debian or Ubuntu, this is usually:
-        apt-get install python2.6-dev python-fuse
-        apt-get install python-pyxattr python-pylibacl
-        
-    Substitute python2.5-dev or python2.4-dev if you have an older system.
-    
-    Or on newer Debian/Ubuntu versions, you can try this:
+   libraries).
+
+   On Debian/Ubuntu this is usually sufficient (run as root):
+
+            apt-get install python2.6-dev python-fuse
+            apt-get install python-pyxattr python-pylibacl
+
+   Substitute python2.5-dev or python2.4-dev if you have an older
+   system.  Alternately, on newer Debian/Ubuntu versions, you can try
+   this:
     
-        apt-get build-dep bup
-       
+            apt-get build-dep bup
+
+   On CentOS (for CentOS 6, at least), this should be sufficient (run
+   as root):
+
+            yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
+            yum install python python-dev
+            yum install fuse-python pyxattr pylibacl
+            yum install perl-Time-HiRes
+
+   In addition to the default CentOS repositories, you may need to add
+   RPMForge (for fuse-python) and EPEL (for pyxattr and pylibacl).
+
  - Build the python module and symlinks:
- 
+
         make
        
  - Run the tests:
@@ -123,7 +137,9 @@ Binary packages of bup are known to be built for the following OSes:
     http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=bup
  - Ubuntu:
     http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=names&keywords=bup
- - NetBSD
+ - pkgsrc (NetBSD, Dragonfly, and others)
+    http://pkgsrc.se/sysutils/bup
+    http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/sysutils/bup/
 
 
 Using bup
@@ -211,6 +227,27 @@ Notes on FreeBSD
   the port named 'hs-pandoc' in the 'textproc' section.
 
 
+Notes on NetBSD/pkgsrc
+----------------------
+
+ - See pkgsrc/sysutils/bup, which should be the most recent stable
+   release and includes man pages.  It also has a reasonable set of
+   dependencies (git, par2, py-fuse-bindings).
+
+ - The "fuse-python" package referred to is hard to locate, and is a
+   separate tarball for the python language binding distributed by the
+   fuse project on sourceforge.  It is available as
+   pkgsrc/filesystems/py-fuse-bindings and on NetBSD 5, "bup fuse"
+   works with it.
+
+ - "bup fuse" presents every directory/file as inode 0.  The directory
+   traversal code ("fts") in NetBSD's libc will interpret this as a
+   cycle and error out, so "ls -R" and "find" will not work.
+
+ - It is not clear if extended attribute and POSIX acl support does
+   anything useful.
+
+
 How it works
 ============
 
@@ -277,10 +314,16 @@ Things that are stupid for now but which we'll fix later
 Help with any of these problems, or others, is very welcome.  Join the
 mailing list (see below) if you'd like to help.
 
- - 'bup save' and 'bup restore' don't know about file metadata.
+ - 'bup save' and 'bup restore' have immature metadata support.
  
-    That means we aren't saving file attributes, mtimes, ownership, hard
-    links, MacOS resource forks, etc.  Clearly this needs to be improved.
+    On the plus side, they actually do have support now, but it's new,
+    and not remotely as well tested as tar/rsync/whatever's.  If you'd
+    like to help test, please do; something like 'rsync -niaHAX src/
+    restore/' may be useful on that front.
+
+    In addition, at the moment, if any strip or graft-style options
+    are specified to 'bup save', then no metadata will be written for
+    the root directory.  That's obviously less than ideal.
 
  - 'bup index' is slower than it should be.
  
@@ -344,6 +387,8 @@ bup has an extensive set of man pages.  Try using 'bup help' to get
 started, or use 'bup help SUBCOMMAND' for any bup subcommand (like split,
 join, index, save, etc.) to get details on that command.
 
+For further technical details, please see ./DESIGN.
+
 
 How you can help
 ================