Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:11:31 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: flz@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: initializing portmaster's local-packagedir Message-ID: <4e064f03.R0Wbh1dASzmu8rcX%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinBJN=u%2BXyVR6iS_=ek5h84BGo5sA@mail.gmail.com> References: <4e02a06e.y49ZMbfV/Hw1q8gi%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <BANLkTinBJN=u%2BXyVR6iS_=ek5h84BGo5sA@mail.gmail.com>
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Florent Thoumie <flz@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:09 AM, <perryh@pluto.rain.com> wrote: > > Starting with a single directory containing a few hundred packages > > (.tbz files), how would I go about converting it into the sort of > > repository which portmaster could use as its --local-packagedir? > > ... how do I figure out which packages go in each of the category > > directories and in Latest? > > Categories are listed in INDEX. The name in Latest is called > LATEST_LINK in the port itself, but AFAIK it's not recorded anywhere > else. Thanks for the pointers. I'd been hoping that there might be a way to do it with portmaster -- or an alternative way of using portmaster wherein the single flat directory would be sufficient -- which I just hadn't figured out. It seems odd that this hasn't come up before :(
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