Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 13:46:43 -0500 From: stan <stanb@panix.com> To: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Stewart Flood <sff@ivo.net> Subject: Re: Createing a package. Message-ID: <20090103184643.GB17297@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <20090103174232.GB80984@torus.slightlystrange.org> References: <20090103172306.GA15372@teddy.fas.com> <20090103174232.GB80984@torus.slightlystrange.org>
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On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 05:42:32PM +0000, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 12:23:06PM -0500, stan wrote: > > I have managed to build OO on a machine of the same architecture as I want > > to run it oon. The target machine does not seem to be capable of building > > it. I suspect that it does not have enough memory. > > > > Can I create a package on the "donor" machine to move this to the target > > machine? Or is there a better way to do this? > > No, this is about the best way to do it. > > The tool you need is pkg_create. > > # pkg_create -b <portname> > > should do it. You'll need the full version number, so on my system the > <portname> bit is openoffice.org-2.4.2. > Thanks, I was a bit put off by the man page, that impiles that you should use a front end to call pkg_create. -- One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
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