Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 16:40:10 +0100 From: Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> To: "Donald J. O'Neill" <donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_create Message-ID: <ef60af0904110407406d7aa08@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200411040916.53878.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> References: <ef60af090411040517644ab610@mail.gmail.com> <200411040916.53878.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm>
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On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:16:53 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill <donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On Thursday 04 November 2004 07:17 am, Gert Cuykens wrote: > > > > When you do make install in a ports application /usr/ports/... > > Does it create a pkg in /var/db/pkg/... ? > > > > And do you use pkg_create like this pkg_create pkgname > > /var/db/pkg/... or like this pkg_create pkgname /usr/ports/... > > > > Whats the difference between /var/db/pkg/... and > > /usr/ports/pakages/... ? > > _______________________________________________ > > Gert, > > Are you trying to create a package you can reinstall or move to > another system? > > If this is the case, there are several ways it can be done. Two that > I use are: > make package > or > make > make install > make package > or > make install > make package > or > make && make install && make package > > It can also be done from portupgrade. If you want to make a package > while upgradeing a port: > portupgrade -p "portname" > > I would also like to add, some ports are marked as not building a > package, for licensing reasons and other reasons. > > If you have /usr/ports/packages, packages will be put there, > otherwise they'll get put in the port. > > Don > > -- > Donald J. O'Neill > donaldj1066@fastmail.fm > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > no i just wanted to understand how the pkg_create works and if the following statemant was true "So a complete pakage is /var/db/pkg/... and /usr/ports/distfiles/... put together with pkg_create in /usr/ports/pakages/..."
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