From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 21:29:38 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE69A16A4CE for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:29:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mci-mail.nodes.net.ad-flow.com (mci-mail.nodes.net.ad-flow.com [66.48.68.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2229943D2F for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:29:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@danielquinn.org) Received: from douglas ([66.59.162.146]) (authenticated)j0ALQMd04741 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:26:22 GMT Exocomm-Delivery-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:26:22 GMT Exocomm-URL: www.exocomm.com From: daniel quinn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:28:24 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501101628.24793.freebsd@danielquinn.org> Subject: building a package without installing it X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:29:39 -0000 is this even possible? a number of google results have informed me that it isn't, but i'm hoping there's a hack or a work around. essentially, i want to build the packages on one box, copy them to many boxes and run package_add there. suggestions/comments? -- Simon: This may come as a surprise, but I'm not very good at talking to girls. Zoe: Why, is there someone you are good at talking to? - Simon and Zo, Firefly, "The Message"