Hardening production servers

[Dan Pelleg]

Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> writes:

> Paul Smith wrote:
> [ ... ]
> > Is there a way to take advantage of the portupgrade suite when it comes to
> > building packages? I.e., is there a "make package" equivalent in portupgrade?
> > I would imagine portupgrade would make packages of any dependicies as well,
> > no?
> 
> Exactly; use the "-p" option to portupgrade:
> 
>       -p
>       --package              Build a package when each specified port is
>                              installed or upgraded.  If a package is upgraded
>                              and its dependent packages are given from the com-
>                              mand line (including the case where -r is speci-
>                              fied), build packages for them as well.


...and on the installing side, use -PP.

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  Dan Pelleg