From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 4 15:40:14 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 A048E16A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 15:40:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D3D043D45 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 15:40:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gert.cuykens@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a41so269059rng for ; Thu, 04 Nov 2004 07:40:10 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=JolbkJA8Td3mtj3jbdJT8FyvPncrYVciWiT6jGRjwAP7Y7KnmAgSBs6miqn33vl3f7ShjQqmWQC595r5EGn3Pwad233x7mk+ilUmg1Ab87WimtkJE6sUUzSuUHgTldw60IWILSB84Y7IUjFEQYbhfV3DerZsLcavYiYapF/ooTg= Received: by 10.38.161.53 with SMTP id j53mr107488rne; Thu, 04 Nov 2004 07:40:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.72.65 with HTTP; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 07:40:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 16:40:10 +0100 From: Gert Cuykens To: "Donald J. O'Neill" In-Reply-To: <200411040916.53878.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200411040916.53878.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_create X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Gert Cuykens List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:40:14 -0000 On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:16:53 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > On Thursday 04 November 2004 07:17 am, Gert Cuykens wrote: > > > > When you do make install in a ports application /usr/ports/... > > Does it create a pkg in /var/db/pkg/... ? > > > > And do you use pkg_create like this pkg_create pkgname > > /var/db/pkg/... or like this pkg_create pkgname /usr/ports/... > > > > Whats the difference between /var/db/pkg/... and > > /usr/ports/pakages/... ? > > _______________________________________________ > > Gert, > > Are you trying to create a package you can reinstall or move to > another system? > > If this is the case, there are several ways it can be done. Two that > I use are: > make package > or > make > make install > make package > or > make install > make package > or > make && make install && make package > > It can also be done from portupgrade. If you want to make a package > while upgradeing a port: > portupgrade -p "portname" > > I would also like to add, some ports are marked as not building a > package, for licensing reasons and other reasons. > > If you have /usr/ports/packages, packages will be put there, > otherwise they'll get put in the port. > > Don > > -- > Donald J. O'Neill > donaldj1066@fastmail.fm > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > no i just wanted to understand how the pkg_create works and if the following statemant was true "So a complete pakage is /var/db/pkg/... and /usr/ports/distfiles/... put together with pkg_create in /usr/ports/pakages/..."