How to build package without installing it?

Michael C. Shultz ringworm01 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 10 15:33:11 PST 2005


On Saturday 10 December 2005 15:18, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> What parameter(s) one needs to use to make a package without installing it?
>
> I have some ports I installed on one machine and want to make packages to
> install in others. The default "make package" tries to install.

If the port is allready installed then use 
pkg_create -b {portname in var/db/pkg}
to make a package of it.

-Mike



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