Createing a package.

[Daniel Bye]

On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 12:23:06PM -0500, stan wrote:
> I have managed to build OO on a machine of the same architecture as I want
> to run it oon. The target machine does not seem to be capable of building
> it. I suspect that it does not have enough memory.
> 
> Can I create a package on the "donor" machine to move this to the target
> machine? Or is there a better way to do this?

No, this is about the best way to do it.

The tool you need is pkg_create.

 # pkg_create -b <portname>

should do it. You'll need the full version number, so on my system the
<portname> bit is openoffice.org-2.4.2.

Good luck!

Dan

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