Package Building in the Large

[Jason C. Wells]

I have been toying with a variety of package building methods lately.  
My latest effort involves looking into the "Third Party Release 
Engineering" documented here: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng-packages/index.html.

Where do I start if I am looking for package building tools that the 
FreeBSD project uses for burning onto ROMs? Is 
ports/Tools/scripts/release the right place?  The dates on the files 
there seem stale.

What I am trying to do is to build 30 or so packages including the big 
ones like X, kde, gnome, plus all of their dependencies on a build host 
and then use pkg_add on various machines.  I have had a variety of 
difficulties with all of the methods I have used thus far (portmaster, 
portupgrade, homegrown).

Thanks,
Jason C. Wells