building select ports for packaging on install media

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Monday, February 11, 2013 a las 02:24:32PM -0500, Kurt Lidl escribió:

> What I'd like to do is augement that CD-ROM image with several
> binary packages, so I can just install them via 'sysinstall',
> rather than having to maintain a /usr/ports tree on every host
> and compile the same software again and again...
> 
> I've found:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng-packages/article.html
> and
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/portbuild/article.html
> 
> But those seem to revolve around building *all* the ports.
> I just want to do a couple of dozen of them, but I'd like to
> end up with something that will generate binary packages that
> 'pkg install' can deal with.

Just compile and install the required ports from /usr/ports on your
main host and create binary packages of them in some central directory
with:

for i in /var/db/pkg/*; do
   pkg=`basename $i`
   pkg_create -Rnb $pkg
done

Move the result to the CD/DVD and that's it

	matthias
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