local ports (Mozilla Calendar)

Joshua Lokken joshua.lokken at gmail.com
Tue Dec 28 10:37:59 PST 2004


On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 11:06:30 -0700, Tom Vilot <tom at vilot.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to quickly make a "local port" or a "local package" that
> I can then use to do things like:
> 
> make package
> make uninstall
> pkg_delete

I don't know if there's a 'quick' way, but you can do
# cd /usr/ports/<category>/<portname>

And, if the port is not installed on your system, you can
do:

# make package

and it'll build and install the port on your machine, and
put a binary package in /usr/ports/packages/All.


-- 
Joshua Lokken
Open Source Advocate


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