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[Matthias Apitz]

El día Thursday, May 22, 2008 a las 09:18:33AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas escribió:

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> Alternatively, you can use `pkg_create -b' to save the installed copies
> of a few ports, and move them over.  Installed packages can be saved
> anywhere you prefer to store them.  I some times use `/usr/pkg'.
> 
> As an example, if you have `procmail-3.22_6' installed, you can create a
> package even after you clean its port build directory with:
> 
>     # cd /usr/pkg
>     # pkg_create -b procmail-3.22_6
> 
> This should save the package in `procmail-3.22_6.tbz' in the current
> directory.
> 
> Then you can move the *.tbz file(s) to the EeePC and install them with
> `pkg_add', as Manolis described.

Thanks for your hint concerning pkg_create. I've stumbled over this as
well and we must not only create a given package, but also all the
packages from which it depends with for example:

# pkg_create -Rb stardict-2.4.8_5

this gave me in this example 144 packages in the current dir; I run it
twice to see if pkg_create detects that a given dependency is already
there or if it will rebuild the package, and it does rebuild them; this
means if I run pkg_create for the 200 ports I've compiled (even if I let
out what perhaps I don't need on the smaller EeePC it is a lot of
stuff), it will do a lot of work twice; is there a way to let pkg_create
check if the pkg is already built and there?

as well one must be very carefully with modifications in the installed
packages; I have, for example, just renamed 
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd.sh 
and pkg_create is now complaining and stopping because the file
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/cupsd is missing; I will take this in consideration
from now;

thx for the hint anyway; its now clear that I will go this way (and buy
the beast :-))

	matthias
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