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Date:      Wed, 8 Mar 2006 14:10:21 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: packaging foreign tarballs
Message-ID:  <20060308191021.GA84472@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060308170229.GM9668@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>
References:  <20060308170229.GM9668@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>

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On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:02:29PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> My apologies if this is covered in the FAQ, I didn't see it.=20
>=20
> If I build a foreign tarball that is either not in the ports, or not the
> version that I want, is there a way to then integrate that build as a pac=
kage,
> registered with the FreeBSD packaging system?

No.  There are utilities in ports that claim to help you track your
manual tarball installs, but I've never used them (nor do I remember
their names, so you'll have to search).

Kris

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