[H-GEN] package management systems.

[Greg Black]

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Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:

| Ian Pulsford <ianjp at optusnet.com.au> writes:
| 
| > I do "make package" because FreeBSD builds, installs the software then
| > makes a package for me that I can put on another box.
| 
| Phwoooar.  That's nice.  Does it work on just a per-package basis?  Or
| can I do a "make package" on all the www packages, for example?

Sure.  Just do this:

    cd /usr/ports/www
    make package

And then go away and watch a movie while it happens.  Of course,
if you're really keen (or are the packages guy at FreeBSD.org),
you'd just do:

    cd /usr/ports
    make package

And then you'd probably come back the next day to see the
results.

Greg

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