Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:58:17 +0100 From: Gabriel Dragffy <gabe@dragffy.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: packages compiled from source Message-ID: <C5C94E44-C6D5-4502-9989-4336CF644A31@dragffy.com> In-Reply-To: <46F6B5BD.7030307@gmail.com> References: <4D948EA6-3B4F-460F-95E3-19ADFC7B9BAC@dragffy.com> <46F675BD.6020105@FreeBSD.org> <46F679A9.1070600@gmail.com> <0CEC1CAE-3255-4974-8818-E1BB53EFAA40@dragffy.com> <46F6B5BD.7030307@gmail.com>
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On 23 Sep 2007, at 19:51, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > Please try not to top-post while replying to freebsd mailing list. It > makes it hard to follow reading from the archives. Comments below. > I'm sorry, was I guilty of top-posting? Didn't mean to :P > Gabriel Dragffy wrote: >> On 23 Sep 2007, at 15:35, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: >>> Kris Kennaway wrote: >>>> Gabriel Dragffy wrote: >>>>> Hi, trying to find out where the complete packge files are for the >>>>> packges that I compiled from ports. I wanted to save these >>>>> somewhere >>>>> so I wouldn't have to recompile them in the future. The handbook >>>>> doesn't shed any light on this:( >>>> >>>> They are not saved separately but you can create backups using >>>> pkg_create -b. >>> >>> In addition, you can use 'package' (or 'package-recursive') target >>> instead of 'install' to create packages automagically. In that case >>> target directory is set by PACKAGES variable. >>> >>> Have a look at ports(7) manpage for details. >> >> Many thanks too all who ansered, that's really helpful. I just had a >> hard time compiling lighttpd and php5 together, so wanted to save >> them >> as packages to spare me the headache in the near future. >> >> Have read the ports man I see that I can change the PACKAGES in the >> environment, but how do I change the environment. Would I edit >> /etc/make.conf at a guess? > > PACKAGES is environmental variable - you'll want to change the > variable, > not the environment ;) > > To change it system wide permanently - yes, editing /etc/make.conf > would > be a good idea. The alternatives are setting it in your shell > environment (depends on what you use) or defining it at install time > (every time) with something like 'make PACKAGES=/some/dir package'. > And > there are probably other methods, too :) Thanks, I'll look in to this, glad that my wild guess wasn't too far wide Regards Gabe
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