making pkgsrc packages

joerg at britannica.bec.de joerg at britannica.bec.de
Thu May 11 03:35:35 PDT 2006


On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:27:14AM +0200, Richard Nyberg wrote:
> Is there a way to make packages from installed software built from pkgsrc?
> 
> I'm looking for an easy way (without recompiling) to install some of
> the software I've already installed here on another computer.

As said by others, pkg_tarup provides this partly. But for any future
package build, it is best to actually generate binary packages. E.g.
instead of doing "bmake install", do "bmake package" and set
DEPENDS_TARGET= package
in /etc/mk.conf

Joerg





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