On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 03:39:26AM -0400, Arend P. van der Veen wrote: > I have a question about ports. I have a port installed. I want to make > package for it also. I find that I must delete the package from my > system first and then go "make package". This is because make package > must install the package first. > > Is there a better way to make a package that does not require me to > uninstall and reinstall it from my system ?
Unfortunately not -- building a package does require you to install
the package as well. There has been some mention on the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list of modifying the system to be able to
install into a temporary area prior to creating a package, but as far
as I know, nothing has yet happened.
A solution to this problem which you can use if you have sufficient
spare capacity is to set up a jail system specially for building
packages: that's the basis of what the FreeBSD package building
cluster does.
Cheers,
Matthew
--
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
Savill Way
PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow
Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK
pgp00000.pgp
Description: PGP signature
