From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 10 19:14:34 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9F9E1B8 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:14:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glarkin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail1.sourcehosting.net (mail1.sourcehosting.net [74.205.51.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A77261E8 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:14:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 24-181-237-39.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com ([24.181.237.39] helo=Gregory-Larkins-iMac.local) by mail1.sourcehosting.net with esmtp (Exim 4.73 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1TtNaB-000CCo-3j; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:14:33 -0500 Received: from Gregory-Larkins-iMac.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by Gregory-Larkins-iMac.local (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CAADB193BA01; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:14:29 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <50EF1315.607@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:14:29 -0500 From: Greg Larkin Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fbsd8 References: <50EF10DB.8070205@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <50EF10DB.8070205@a1poweruser.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 24.181.237.39 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: glarkin@FreeBSD.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on mail1.sourcehosting.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL,RDNS_DYNAMIC,TVD_RCVD_IP autolearn=no version=3.3.1 Subject: Re: make install package? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mail1.sourcehosting.net) Cc: FreeBSD questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: glarkin@FreeBSD.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:14:34 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 1/10/13 2:04 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: > When I do a "make install package" command the package gets stored > in the directory I am in. > > What is the default path for the packages to be stored in? Is it > /usr/packages? > > If that is indeed the default location, how do I get the "make > install package" command put it there automatically? By default, it is /usr/ports/packages. To make sure your packages are stored there, make sure that directory exists. Once it does, cd to your favorite port directory and run this command: make -V PKGFILE The output should indicate that the package will be created in /usr/ports/packages instead of the local directory. Hope that helps, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/cpucycle/ - Follow you, follow me -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlDvExQACgkQ0sRouByUApDaEQCfZazvazW5gHFSf7aj+G6Rjq9z B+oAn32bn6060dXlfgMxht8xO6zyE5Tj =jHKR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----