On Sep 24, 2010 10:54am, Rick Miller <vmil...@hostileadmin.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:41 AM, vrwmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible to take a port, make a package of it and put it in the
>> packages directory of my own media?
>
> Sure it's easy. When build a port you can issue a make package command, or
> you can use pkg_create to create packages from installed ported. A common
> approach to this is build all your updates in a jail, make packages of them,
> then delete package from the host and install the newly built ones from the
> jail. Very small, if any downtime. You can use the jail to create pkg's
> for a custom repository too.
I've created the package and copied it to the networked media. How do
I edit the INDEX file so that it knows how to get the file?
I did figure out one way to get this to work. I copied the entry for the port from the ports index file into the packages index file and it worked. Whether or not it's an appropriate way, I am unsure.
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