Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 12:13:53 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port to package amd64 to i386 Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK2tjz8NDD0e=vLkfN27pcTW_-k=bSAjzBiQ5CpusGGyfQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F564B17.1010700@bananmonarki.se> References: <4F547C59.1040604@bananmonarki.se> <4F548571.1050203@gmail.com> <4F54ED12.1090409@bananmonarki.se> <20120305175551.ae24b6f0.freebsd@edvax.de> <4F564B17.1010700@bananmonarki.se>
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On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> wrote: > Again, a "problem" is that packages can only be generated >> if the port has been installed >> > > Why is that. I hope you can educate me on that. > Because a package is the result of what is installed. It essentially works somewhat like Debian's checkinstall by keeping track of what's installed by the installation script, then using the info of what's installed to build the package. I'm not exactly sure how "make package" works internally, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's almost the same as "pkg_create -b". -- Adam Vande More
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