Transferring ports
Ivan Voras
ivoras at freebsd.org
Thu Mar 20 16:52:16 UTC 2008
On 20/03/2008, Doug Poland <doug at polands.org> wrote:
> Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:02:42AM +0300, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
> >> * Ivan Voras (ivoras at freebsd.org) wrote:
> >>> Is there a utility that would do that, and if not, does anyone have the
> >>> time to write one?
> >>
>
> Would this not be an appropriate use for packages? If one creates a
> package for every installed port on the "host" system, then one simply
> installs the package on the target system.
Yes, that's exactly what I need (the same functionality as "pkg_create
-b" + install on the other system), only without the actual package
file being created. Pipes would also be acceptable (piping the output
of pkg_create from one machine to the other, etc).
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