> On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 07:06:07AM -0700, Alistair G. Crooks wrote:
> > Changes to the NetBSD Packages Collection in May 2000
> > =====================================================
> > 	"oneko -bsd_daemon -bg red" *rox* :)
> 	Cool.  I didn't have this package installed yet.  However, I
> do have many other packages installed but when I built them I didn't
> make a package (or have since deleted it) so I have nothing to copy
> to my other (recently crashed :( ) machine.  I tried just plain 
> "make package" but that does an actual "make install" first which fails.
> I tried setting DESTDIR, but, even after figuring out that I have to
> also set PKGTOOLS_VERSION and fix a few other bugs, that creates a package
> that wants to install into the DESTDIR supplied at build time.  I'm guessing
> no one has tried building with DESTDIR so maybe it's the wrong way to
> try to do this.
> 	So how do I create a package without having to remove the
> package I already have installed?

Take a look at the pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_tarup package, which creates a
binary package from an installed package.

Regards,
Alistair