On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Johan Hendriks <joh.hendr...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Grant D. Watson schreef: > >> Ports folks, >> >> I sent a message to Kevin Lo, since the ports search site lists his >> address for ubuntu-font, but he said this isn't his area. >> >> I am a Linux user who's been playing with FreeBSD and enjoying it; in >> creating and destroying experimental VMs I've made great use of binary >> packages. For some reason the ubuntu-font port is not available as a >> package. Would that be difficult to change? It's no hardship to >> install it from ports of course, but having it as a package would be >> convenient. >> >> Thanks for all your work. >> >> Grant >> >> >> You could create your own package after it is installed from ports. > > |pkg_create -b ubuntu-font-0.80_1 > > pkg_add <filename> will install the package. > > gr > johan > > > Or, more simply, build and install the port and then 'make package'. Both portmaster an portupgrade support package building that is generally cleaner. For portmaster, '-g' is the option -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
