> 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".
>

Only a dumb question: are there any way to build the package (.tgz)
without  install the package on the system (AFAIK the building of the
package follows its installation) ?

Thanks
Roberto Trovo'

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