Createing a package.

[stan]

On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 05:42:32PM +0000, Daniel Bye wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 12:23:06PM -0500, stan wrote:
> > I have managed to build OO on a machine of the same architecture as I want
> > to run it oon. The target machine does not seem to be capable of building
> > it. I suspect that it does not have enough memory.
> > 
> > Can I create a package on the "donor" machine to move this to the target
> > machine? Or is there a better way to do this?
> 
> No, this is about the best way to do it.
> 
> The tool you need is pkg_create.
> 
>  # pkg_create -b <portname>
> 
> should do it. You'll need the full version number, so on my system the
> <portname> bit is openoffice.org-2.4.2.
> 

Thanks, I was a bit put off by the man page, that impiles that you should
use a front end to call pkg_create.


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