From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 14 10:53:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4708137BDF7 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 10:53:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-213-168-73-145.netcologne.de [213.168.73.145]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA01299; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:53:47 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e7EHpeB01622; Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:51:40 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:51:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: David Thiel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: local additions collection question In-Reply-To: <3991E64C.51668806@nexprise.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, David Thiel wrote: > Is the "local additions collection" feature of the installer documented > anywhere? I can't find anything in the handbook about it, and a search > of the FBsd website doesn't turn up anything. How is this function > used? This helps if you have a standard installation in addition to the other ones. To create your own local packages, just follow the example of the others: create a subdirectory "local" split(1) your tgz archive into local.aa, local.ab, local.ac, etc... You can also include a local.mtree and local.inf, if you like. The archive is extracted into "/". -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message