Subject: Re: how to get 'make package' to work
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Soren Jacobsen <snj@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/11/2004 19:37:28
On 01/11 22:32, Russell McManus wrote:
> 
> I've got suse_base installed from pkgsrc on my server.  Now I want to
> make a binary package from pkgsrc that I will install on my laptop at
> a later time.  How can I get the 'make package' target to do it's
> magic, even though I already have suse_base installed on the server?
> 
> I'm getting this error:
> 
> 
> ===> Installing for suse_base-7.3nb4
> ===>  suse_base-7.3nb4 is already installed - perhaps an older version?
> 
> So I want the functionality of 'make package' without the checks to
> see whether the package is already installed.  I must be missing
> something really easy.  Unfortunately, I don't know what...

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