making packages

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Hi Chris,

> 
> The pkg_create man page advises to ``use a front-end tool for the job
>       rather than muddling through it yourself''

Did you receive any response to this particular question? I have only
lately noticed this anomaly myself, and wished that it read "... a
front-end tool, such as xxx ...".

In your situation, however, I'd recommend a) using portupgrade -pf for
already-installed packages or b) portinstall -p and then pkg_deinstall,
for packages you don't wish to install locally.  I've noticed also
(accidentally, when I forgot to unset it after a jail installation) that
portinstall appears to respect DESTDIR in the environment, so you could
set this variable before performing a temporary installation too (but YMMV,
of course).

cheers,
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