Subject: Re: Creating binary packages from pkgsrc
To: Bastiaan Welmers <haasje@welmers.net>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/21/2004 17:53:43
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Bastiaan Welmers wrote:

> Is there an easy way to create binary packages (by pkg_create) from
> software installed with pkgsrc tree? I have an old P1 server and
> I want to compile software for it on my fast box, create NetBSD binary
> packages and install it on the P1 server.
> pkg_create is said to be driven by another front-end tool, what could that be?

The normal way when using pkgsrc is to run "make package".

Or you can later run "pkg_tarup" -- install the pkgtools/pkg_tarup
package.


 Jeremy C. Reed

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