From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 14:11:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E507616A4B3 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 14:11:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay3.softcomca.com (relay3.softcomca.com [168.144.1.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C747B43FDD for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 14:11:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akanwar@digitarchy.com) Received: from M2W045.mail2web.com ([168.144.251.151]) by relay3.softcomca.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 17:11:53 -0400 Message-ID: <29950-220031031211153866@M2W045.mail2web.com> X-Priority: 3 X-Originating-IP: 68.111.37.3 X-URL: http://mail2web.com/ From: "akanwar@digitarchy.com" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 17:11:53 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Oct 2003 21:11:53.0938 (UTC) FILETIME=[A397D320:01C38860] Subject: creating a package X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: akanwar@digitarchy.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 21:11:58 -0000 Hi all, I want to distribute my software as a FreeBSD package=2E I have been thro= ugh the porters handbook, but it soes not give comprehensive info about how to= build packages=2E=20 Is there a good doc on how to do that=2E Also what is the difference betwe= en =2Etbz and =2Etgz packages=2E Are they compatible ?=20 Thanks for any pointers, -ansh -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web=2Ecom/ =2E