packaging foreign tarballs

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:02:29PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> My apologies if this is covered in the FAQ, I didn't see it. 
> 
> If I build a foreign tarball that is either not in the ports, or not the
> version that I want, is there a way to then integrate that build as a package,
> registered with the FreeBSD packaging system?

No.  There are utilities in ports that claim to help you track your
manual tarball installs, but I've never used them (nor do I remember
their names, so you'll have to search).

Kris
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