building a package without installing it

[Frank Laszlo]

daniel quinn wrote:

>is this even possible?  a number of google results have informed me that it 
>isn't, but i'm hoping there's a hack or a work around.  essentially, i want 
>to build the packages on one box, copy them to many boxes and run package_add 
>there.
>
>suggestions/comments?
>
>  
>
FYI, this belongs on -ports.

what is wrong with 'make package' ?

-Frank