pkg_create v make package

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Thu, 29 May 2008 22:06:22 +0100, Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh at onetel.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> What's the difference between packages made by these two methods?
>
> Eg I have youtube_dl installed. From within the youtube_dl port directory
>
> # make package-recursive
>
> resulted in
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  8389 29 May 21:14 /usr/ports/packages/All/youtube_dl-2008.04.20.tbz
>
> whereas from within my home directory
>
> % pkg_create -Rb youtube_dl-2008.04.20
>
> resulted in
> -rw-r--r--  1 chrisw  chrisw  8281 29 May 21:22 youtube_dl-2008.04.20.tbz

Packages are just 'tarballs with extra stuff'.  You can extract the
two tarballs and use `diff -r' to see where they differ :)