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Date:      Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:45:25 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        navneet Upadhyay <navneet.upadhyay@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Trying to support my product on BSD
Message-ID:  <20080118134418.B28136@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <d763ac660801180501w786f1aaft318abdde21222083@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Adrian Chadd wrote:

>> 2.* How to package the binaries*(RPM sort of thing). Idea is to provide a 
>> package to user who can install them binaries using this package by issuing 
>> single command.
>
> FreeBSD has a ports system which lets you automate a source build of a 
> package and optionally build a binary package you can distribute to your 
> clients.

You can also directly invoke pkg_create(1) to create binary packages that will 
be understood by pkg_info, pkg_add, etc.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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