On 03/07/12 04:13, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Bernt Hansson<b...@bananmonarki.se> wrote:
Again, a "problem" is that packages can only be generated
if the port has been installed
Why is that. I hope you can educate me on that.
Because a package is the result of what is installed. It essentially works
somewhat like Debian's checkinstall by keeping track of what's installed by
the installation script, then using the info of what's installed to build
the package. I'm not exactly sure how "make package" works internally, but
it wouldn't surprise me if it's almost the same as "pkg_create -b".
From what I understand of ports (as a maintainer) that is the case;
plus some other bits and pieces for checking, verification, and cleanup.
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