n54%gmx.com@localhost writes: > Just yesterday it happened to me that I needed to reuse my stronger > machine to generate packages for my laptop (I cannot compile QT on it > anymore, as it started to take way too much memory) and I landed with > the problem that there are no packages (I considered it at the first > glance as a regression) in the standard location > (/usr/pkgsrc/packages/)... I've done this sort of thing too. You may find pkg_tarup as a way to 99.9% recover from not having saved packages. It basically creates a binary package file from the installed files. (I think it's far better and safer to save the actual package.)
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