[H-GEN] package management systems.

[Tony Nugent]

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On Wed Feb 12 2003 at 22:27, 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?
> 
> > That's how easy it is to make a package (ie. prebuilt port like an
> > rpm) on FreeBSD.
> 
> Very, very nice.

Yes, but would not that functionality depend on the "package" tarket
specified in the Makefile?

Or is this a more general *BSD-specific thing?

There are many program tarballs that you do things like this with...
one that I've only done yesterday is "make rpm" with the
exmh-2.6.tar.gz sources, and the result was that three rpm packages
ended up in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/ all ready to be installed.

Cheers
Tony

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