Date: 10 Jan 2005 17:54:04 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: daniel quinn <freebsd@danielquinn.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: building a package without installing it Message-ID: <448y70ki9f.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200501101723.20716.freebsd@danielquinn.org> References: <200501101628.24793.freebsd@danielquinn.org> <200501101710.10453.freebsd@danielquinn.org> <200501101417.03984.reso3w83@verizon.net> <200501101723.20716.freebsd@danielquinn.org>
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daniel quinn <freebsd@danielquinn.org> writes:
> On January 10, 2005 05:17 pm, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
> > If the port is allready installed try:
> > pkg_create -b {name of installed port as listed under /var/db/pkg}
>
> cool, thanks
> and what if i don't want it installed on this machine? if i just want to
> build it here for use elsewhere?
You could install to a different prefix (by setting PREFIX, I think)
and point to a different package database (by setting PKG_DBDIR). I'm
not sure if that would work, though; at the very worst, you could
do the package building in a jail like the ports cluster does...
--
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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