Trying to support my product on BSD

[Robert Watson]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Adrian Chadd wrote:

>> 2.* How to package the binaries*(RPM sort of thing). Idea is to provide a 
>> package to user who can install them binaries using this package by issuing 
>> single command.
>
> FreeBSD has a ports system which lets you automate a source build of a 
> package and optionally build a binary package you can distribute to your 
> clients.

You can also directly invoke pkg_create(1) to create binary packages that will 
be understood by pkg_info, pkg_add, etc.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge