Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:43:02 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg_create v make package Message-ID: <48420CB6.6060908@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <87skw0wwz0.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <483F1ACE.50208@onetel.com> <87skw0wwz0.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Thu, 29 May 2008 22:06:22 +0100, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> wrote: >> Hi >> >> What's the difference between packages made by these two methods? >> >> Eg I have youtube_dl installed. From within the youtube_dl port directory >> >> # make package-recursive >> >> resulted in >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8389 29 May 21:14 /usr/ports/packages/All/youtube_dl-2008.04.20.tbz >> >> whereas from within my home directory >> >> % pkg_create -Rb youtube_dl-2008.04.20 >> >> resulted in >> -rw-r--r-- 1 chrisw chrisw 8281 29 May 21:22 youtube_dl-2008.04.20.tbz > > Packages are just 'tarballs with extra stuff'. You can extract the > two tarballs and use `diff -r' to see where they differ :) > > Of course you can, thank you. Sometimes fear of magic stops me seeing obvious things. Chris
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