From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 15 04:51:15 2004 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 0398616A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 04:51:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1707E43D5F for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 04:51:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1])i3FBp5CZ053166 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:51:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i3FBp5mJ053165; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:51:05 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:51:05 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: "Arend P. van der Veen" Message-ID: <20040415115105.GF40193@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , "Arend P. van der Veen" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1082014766.7294.26.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="oPmsXEqKQNHCSXW7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1082014766.7294.26.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040407, clamav-milter version 0.70g cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:51:15 -0000 --oPmsXEqKQNHCSXW7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 03:39:26AM -0400, Arend P. van der Veen wrote: > I have a question about ports. I have a port installed. I want to make > package for it also. I find that I must delete the package from my > system first and then go "make package". This is because make package > must install the package first. =20 >=20 > Is there a better way to make a package that does not require me to > uninstall and reinstall it from my system ? Unfortunately not -- building a package does require you to install the package as well. There has been some mention on the freebsd-ports@... mailing list of modifying the system to be able to install into a temporary area prior to creating a package, but as far as I know, nothing has yet happened. A solution to this problem which you can use if you have sufficient spare capacity is to set up a jail system specially for building packages: that's the basis of what the FreeBSD package building cluster does. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --oPmsXEqKQNHCSXW7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAfncpdtESqEQa7a0RAkIOAJ4tYcln+fF0VtwvdVt2QZAYxHT/UgCeMz5Q Dh5Md+6wq6Lh7mzonCTFED0= =ME8P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oPmsXEqKQNHCSXW7--