Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:50:52 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Createing a package. Message-ID: <87prj4np7n.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20090103172306.GA15372@teddy.fas.com> (stan's message of "Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:23:06 -0500") References: <20090103172306.GA15372@teddy.fas.com>
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On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:23:06 -0500, stan <stanb@panix.com> 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?
Yes. The pkg_create utility can do this for you.
* Create an empty directory in the package 'host' system. This will
hold the OO package and any dependencies it needs to run. I often
use `/usr/ports/packages' for this purpose, i.e.:
# mkdir -p /usr/ports/packages
* Enter the empty directory and run pkg_create. By specifying the -R
and -b options you can create packages for an installed version of
OO (the -b option) and all its dependencies (the -R option):
# pkg_create -R -b open-office-XXX
Make sure that you specify the package name of the installed OO.
Let pkg_create run for a while, and when it is finished you will have
`*.tbz' packages for OO and everything it needs to run.
Copy these packages in a directory on the target host (or just mount the
'host' directory over NFS), make sure that you have plenty of disk space
in /var/tmp (pkg_install will need it to extract the packages as it
installs them on the target system), and then from the target system
run:
# cd /path/to/mounted/package/directory
# pkg_add open-office-XXX
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