From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 31 10:27:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A6FE37B401 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:27:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from tomts9-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts9.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B43243EE1 for ; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 10:27:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.95.176.107]) by tomts9-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20021231182751.JGUY10918.tomts9-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:27:51 -0500 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id gBVIQOp12733; Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:26:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <011701c2b0fa$56a742f0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Michael Grant" , References: <200212311823.gBVINSJ14710@splat.grant.org> Subject: Re: installing software question Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:27:52 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > When I install something from the ports collection, the makefile > nicely generates a packing list so I can deinstall it at a later time. > > Is there an easy way to do this if I download some random tar file for > which I would normally untar it, ./configure, and make install? > > In other words, I install something which is not in the ports > collection manually, I'd like to generate a packing list so I can use > pkg_delete to remove it. Is there an easy way to do this? The best way to do this is to create a port for the software you want to install and get it added to the ports collection. The porters handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.htm l) has detailed instructions on how to do this. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message