Package Building in the Large

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Thu Nov 22 00:38:58 PST 2007


On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Jason C. Wells wrote:

> What I am trying to do is to build 30 or so packages including the big ones 
> like X, kde, gnome, plus all of their dependencies on a build host and then 
> use pkg_add on various machines.  I have had a variety of difficulties with 
> all of the methods I have used thus far (portmaster, portupgrade, homegrown).

What problems did you have with portmaster? Did the backup package 
creation fail in some way?

Doug

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