From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 22:51:47 2008 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 242D3106566C for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 29 May 2008 22:51:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7018B8FC13 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 29 May 2008 22:51:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl38-53.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.165.53]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-1) with ESMTP id m4TMjggD025221 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 30 May 2008 01:45:49 +0300 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m4TMjfkN006936; Fri, 30 May 2008 01:45:41 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m4TMjdaV006935; Fri, 30 May 2008 01:45:39 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> References: <483F1ACE.50208@onetel.com> Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 01:45:39 +0300 In-Reply-To: <483F1ACE.50208@onetel.com> (Chris Whitehouse's message of "Thu, 29 May 2008 22:06:22 +0100") Message-ID: <87skw0wwz0.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-MailScanner-ID: m4TMjggD025221 X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.788, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.61, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg_create v make package X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 22:51:47 -0000 On Thu, 29 May 2008 22:06:22 +0100, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> wrote: > Hi > > What's the difference between packages made by these two methods? > > Eg I have youtube_dl installed. From within the youtube_dl port directory > > # make package-recursive > > resulted in > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8389 29 May 21:14 /usr/ports/packages/All/youtube_dl-2008.04.20.tbz > > whereas from within my home directory > > % pkg_create -Rb youtube_dl-2008.04.20 > > resulted in > -rw-r--r-- 1 chrisw chrisw 8281 29 May 21:22 youtube_dl-2008.04.20.tbz Packages are just 'tarballs with extra stuff'. You can extract the two tarballs and use `diff -r' to see where they differ :)