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Subject: Re: Package Building in the Large
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Jason C. Wells wrote:
> I have been toying with a variety of package building methods lately.  
> My latest effort involves looking into the "Third Party Release 
> Engineering" documented here: 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng-packages/index.html. 
> 
> 
> Where do I start if I am looking for package building tools that the 
> FreeBSD project uses for burning onto ROMs? Is 
> ports/Tools/scripts/release the right place?  The dates on the files 
> there seem stale.

ports/Tools/portbuild/scripts/

> What I am trying to do is to build 30 or so packages including the big 
> ones like X, kde, gnome, plus all of their dependencies on a build host 
> and then use pkg_add on various machines.  I have had a variety of 
> difficulties with all of the methods I have used thus far (portmaster, 
> portupgrade, homegrown).

Probably you want the tinderbox port though, unless you need to 
distribute across many build hosts.

Kris