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From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: pkg_create broken by design?
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On 25-Jun-2003 Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:21:14PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
>> 
>> I'm trying to make a package..
>> according to the man page for pkg_create:
> 
> Look into the ports collections for thousands of examples of how to
> create packages.

Umm, some of us have to create packages w/o using ports, like for
in house software.  I have also run into this bug and it is quite
annoying.

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