Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:10:40 +0200 From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Moving ports around? Message-ID: <1184451040.75734.44.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> In-Reply-To: <f7bc42$r1s$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <f7bc42$r1s$1@sea.gmane.org>
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Ivan Voras p=ED=B9e v so 14. 07. 2007 v 22:36 +0200:
> Is there a canonical, re-usable way to move / rebase packages around the
> system, so that the package gets moved from one system directory tree to
> another?
>=20
> Example: If I have a machine with some installed packages, and another
> machine's root directory mounted in (e.g.) /mnt, I'd like to copy a
> locally installed package to /mnt, so the effect is as if the package is
> installed in an environment chrooted on /mnt. For now, I'm doing this
> the "long way around", by creating a package (.tgz) file, then
> installing it in a chroot environment on the /mnt tree. I'd like to skip
> the package file creation phase and directly move the files from one
> location to the other, with the same effect (e.g. pre/post-install
> scripts, etc.).
Hmm, recreating a package from the installed port and installing it
again in chroot() sounds pretty straightforward to me...
--=20
Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
<pav@FreeBSD.org>
Logitech is infamous for providing 30 MB compressed driver software
packages that install a bunch of crap applications on the system and
round up the number of icons in the tray to the nearest power of two.
-- Michael Stromberg
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