Subject: Re: Help creating a package
To: B. James Phillippe <bryanxms@ecst.csuchico.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/11/2001 14:37:33
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 11:58:34PM -0800, B. James Phillippe wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a very simple Open Source utility which I would like to create a
> NetBSD package for.  The utility would contain only a single binary, single
> rc file, single man page and single "sample" rc file.  I'm having a little
> bit of a head-spin reading the man page for pkg_create(1) and I haven't
> been able to find a HOWTO on the 'Net.  Can anyone offer me some tips for
> quickstarting this process?  I have experience building RPM's on Linux.

You don't have to use pkg_create directly, just make an entry in pkgsrc
for your package.
See http://www.fr.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html
for details.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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