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From: Sean Ellis <sellis@telus.net>
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Subject: Re: Building Packages - Links to Tutorials?
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On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:34:20PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> I have a "faster" machine that I'd like to use to build packages and 
> then install those packages on my "slower" machine.  I'm looking for 
> links to info describing this process and some best practices.  I'm 
> familiar with using portupgrade to build and install ports.  I've read 
> the portupgrade man pages and see options to build and install packages 
> but am not understanding how to put it all together.

Check this out.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/07/FreeBSD_Basics.html

.. under "Making a Package Repository".

--
Sean