packages compiled from source

[Gabriel Dragffy]

On 23 Sep 2007, at 19:51, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote:

> Please try not to top-post while replying to freebsd mailing list. It
> makes it hard to follow reading from the archives. Comments below.
>

I'm sorry, was I guilty of top-posting? Didn't mean to :P

> Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
>> On 23 Sep 2007, at 15:35, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote:
>>> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>>> Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
>>>>> Hi, trying to find out where the complete packge files are for the
>>>>> packges that I compiled from ports. I wanted to save these  
>>>>> somewhere
>>>>> so I wouldn't have to recompile them in the future. The handbook
>>>>> doesn't shed any light on this:(
>>>>
>>>> They are not saved separately but you can create backups using
>>>> pkg_create -b.
>>>
>>> In addition, you can use 'package' (or 'package-recursive') target
>>> instead of 'install' to create packages automagically. In that case
>>> target directory is set by PACKAGES variable.
>>>
>>> Have a look at ports(7) manpage for details.
>>
>> Many thanks too all who ansered, that's really helpful. I just had a
>> hard time compiling lighttpd and php5 together, so wanted to save  
>> them
>> as packages to spare me the headache in the near future.
>>
>> Have read the ports man I see that I can change the PACKAGES in the
>> environment, but how do I change the environment. Would I edit
>> /etc/make.conf at a guess?
>
> PACKAGES is environmental variable - you'll want to change the  
> variable,
> not the environment ;)
>
> To change it system wide permanently - yes, editing /etc/make.conf  
> would
> be a good idea. The alternatives are setting it in your shell
> environment (depends on what you use) or defining it at install time
> (every time) with something like 'make PACKAGES=/some/dir package'.  
> And
> there are probably other methods, too :)

Thanks, I'll look in to this, glad that my wild guess wasn't too far  
wide

Regards

Gabe