[H-GEN] package management systems.

[Greg Black]

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Tony Nugent wrote:

| 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?

Speaking only for FreeBSD here, I can say that the "package"
target won't be in the Makefile in that directory.  It will come
in by magic as a result of a ".include <bsd.port.mk>" line in
the Makefile.  Obviously, there are other things that do have to
be spelt out in the Makefile, but there are templates for this
(as well as thousands of examples) and the ports maintainers get
on top of that pretty fast.

Greg

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