pkgsrc question

[Justin C. Sherrill]

On Wed, March 21, 2007 10:26 pm, Kevin L. Kane wrote:
> Based on what i've been reading i should be able to create a binary
> package of something after its installed, however if i do 'bmake
> package' after i already did 'bmake install' it fails with errors, and
> the only way to fix this is to 'pkg_delete <package>' and then do
> 'bmake package'(which not only creates the binary package but installs
> as well and will fail to create the binary package if it cannot
> install).  Is this normal, the documentation I look at for netbsd
> seems to suggest that i can cd into a package dir, then do this:

I saw the same question come up on the pkgsrc-users at netbsd.org mailing
list recently.  There's several ways to do it, it appears:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2007/03/05/0004.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2007/03/06/0000.html