Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 00:18:26 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to create custom meta-port ? Message-ID: <20170424001826.192b25cf.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <VI1PR02MB12008E73AC5D3B88BCC55CA1F61C0@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> References: <VI1PR02MB12008E73AC5D3B88BCC55CA1F61C0@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>
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On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 22:12:11 +0000, Manish Jain wrote: > Hi, > > I am on FreeBSD 12-current amd64. > > Since a package is not yet available for virtualbox under FreeBSD 12, > I had to build the emulators/virtualbox-ose port. I chose to build > the port with GCC5 and QT4 (both already installed via pkg). > > What I would like to do is save time in future with a custom meta-package > that lumps together the tarballs for virtualbox-ose, gcc5, and qt4. > Effectively, the installing the meta via 'pkg add' would have the > same effect as 'pkg install virtualbox-ose gcc5 qt4'. > > Is that possible ? Thanks for any information. Check for runtime dependencies: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-depend.html Ports in general: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/ -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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