Building Packages - Links to Tutorials?

[Drew Tomlinson]

Sean Ellis told a big fish story including the following on 3/6/2004 
12:51 PM:

>On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:34:20PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
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>>I have a "faster" machine that I'd like to use to build packages and 
>>then install those packages on my "slower" machine.  I'm looking for 
>>links to info describing this process and some best practices.  I'm 
>>familiar with using portupgrade to build and install ports.  I've read 
>>the portupgrade man pages and see options to build and install packages 
>>but am not understanding how to put it all together.
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>Check this out.
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>http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/07/FreeBSD_Basics.html
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>.. under "Making a Package Repository".
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Thanks, that helps.  Now, is there any way to make a package without 
installing it?  For example, on my build machine I have the full version 
of bacula installed.  However, I'd like to make a package that is built 
with the "CLIENT_ONLY=YES" option.  So do I really have to build and 
install it "wrong" on the build machine and then rebuild and install it 
"right" just to get the package I want to install on another machine?  
Seem like there would be a better way.

Thanks,

Drew