a question about FreeBSD Porter's Handbook

[Peter Pentchev]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 09:26:52PM +0800, sexbear wrote:
> Recently, I tried to make a port, and I don't want to creat the pkg-plist file manually, so I read Chapter 17 Automated package list creation.
> I followed the steps, but got errors when typing make install PREFIX=/var/tmp/port-name ( sorry I can't remeber it~~:p)
> Finally, I tried to creat the pkg-plist file manually at first(touch pkg-plist), then it worked well.
> Is it a correct step?
> If it is, wish it could be added to help someboby.

Yes, it is the correct way; I wonder how nobody noticed this one before :)

I just committed a change to the Porter's handbook listing this step;
it should show up on the FreeBSD website in a couple of hours, at the next
website rebuild.  Thanks for pointing out this omission! :)

G'luck,
Peter

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