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Date:      Fri, 23 Apr 2004 18:23:46 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Killermink! <killermink@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make package from port
Message-ID:  <20040423172346.GA2411@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Sea1-F633R1evvWPkP900012279@hotmail.com>
References:  <Sea1-F633R1evvWPkP900012279@hotmail.com>

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On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 09:59:19PM +0000, Killermink ! wrote:

> Is there a way I can create a package of xfce and its dependencies, so i=
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> can back them up, reinstall then pkg_add them/it easily?  I tried a make=
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> package but it failed as it said it was already installed?

To create a package from an already installed port:

    # pkg_create -b pkg-name

(where pkg-name is the appropriate entry in /var/db/pkg)

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.                       26 The Paddocks
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PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey         Marlow
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