Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:16:53 -0600 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" <donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_create Message-ID: <200411040916.53878.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <ef60af090411040517644ab610@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef60af090411040517644ab610@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday 04 November 2004 07:17 am, Gert Cuykens wrote: > When you do make install in a ports application /usr/ports/... > Does it create a pkg in /var/db/pkg/... ? > > And do you use pkg_create like this pkg_create pkgname > /var/db/pkg/... or like this pkg_create pkgname /usr/ports/... > > Whats the difference between /var/db/pkg/... and > /usr/ports/pakages/... ? > _______________________________________________ Gert, Are you trying to create a package you can reinstall or move to another system? If this is the case, there are several ways it can be done. Two that I use are: make package or make make install make package or make install make package or make && make install && make package It can also be done from portupgrade. If you want to make a package while upgradeing a port: portupgrade -p "portname" I would also like to add, some ports are marked as not building a package, for licensing reasons and other reasons. If you have /usr/ports/packages, packages will be put there, otherwise they'll get put in the port. Don -- Donald J. O'Neill donaldj1066@fastmail.fm
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