Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 12:41:43 -0500 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" <duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jonathan Horne <jhorne@dfwlp.com>, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Subject: Re: how to avoid recompiling applications? Message-ID: <200606041241.43397.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0606041019m37693824y27e541088ef206c0@mail.gmail.com> References: <200606031212.11908.jhorne@dfwlp.com> <200606041205.20737.jhorne@dfwlp.com> <ef10de9a0606041019m37693824y27e541088ef206c0@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sunday 04 June 2006 12:19, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 6/4/06, Jonathan Horne <jhorne@dfwlp.com> wrote: > > so, could i theoretically use 'make reinstall' on a fresh system > > where the port had never been previously installed? > No, you can't. > Yes... but what's the point?... when you can make your own packages. > instead of typing 'make install' type 'make package', this will spit > out a .tbz file you can use with pkg_add etc... > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/07/FreeBSD_Basics.html Now, this is what I do, except do it "make package-recursive", that way you get any packages that have been installed as requirements. Be sure to do "mkdir /usr/ports/packages", otherwise, the packages you're making are going to be stored in the individual port. If you have /usr/ports/packages, they'll be stored in one location that you can copy elsewhere, cd or dvd for instance. Don
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