Re: making pkgsrc packages

[joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 12:56:24PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 12:32:05PM +0200, joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > As said by others, pkg_tarup provides this partly. But for any future
> > package build, it is best to actually generate binary packages. E.g.
> > instead of doing "bmake install", do "bmake package" and set
> > DEPENDS_TARGET= package in /etc/mk.conf
> 
> FYI: "make package" implies DEPENDS_TARGET=package (if DEPENDS_TARGET is
> unset).  But it's still useful to set it, e.g. if you issue "make" and
> "make package" separately.  

I know, but exactly for the separate compilation it is useful. Another
handy option is DEPENDS_TARGET=bin-install, which would check if a
binary package is available and use that.

Joerg