On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 01:23:20PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > navneet Upadhyay wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We have our product on RHEL(almost all versions), we are planning to support > > it on *FreeBSD*. > > We were successfull in building the binaries. Now we have to make a > > setup(RPM sort of thing). > > By visiting sites i cam to know that pkg_create will do it for me. But i am > > unable to create a package as per my needs. I have gone through many > > documents on freeBSD.org, my needs are : > > > > 1. I have around 8 executables which should go to various directories as > > part of installation , and around 15 config file which go to config > > directory as part of installation. > > > > 2. I have around 4 script files which should be executed as part of > > installation after the files are transferred to the respective folders. > > > > > > Can somebody provide me some information on how to achieve it. > > > > I am not looking at Ports. > > I suggest you reconsider use of the ports system, as that is the canonical > way to create installer packages on FreeBSD. You can create a port privately > - -- it doesn't have to be submitted to the FreeBSD ports system. Just follow > the instructions in the Porter's Handbook for creating the port -- so long > as it has it's own little sub directory to contain the Makefile, pkg-descr > and so forth, it can be kept virtually anywhere in your filesystem. It will > pick up dependencies from the standard ports tree quite happily. Agreed.
Read the porters' handbook[1], and create a port for it. I suggest having a local category for it. You can create a category in the ports system with the mkdir(1) command, like ``mkdir /usr/ports/mycategory''. This way all the ports updating utilities (csup, portsnap) will leave your port alone. Once you have the port for this piece of software of yours, you can create a package anytime by typing "make package". The ports framework is pretty nice and easy to use, I have also managed to make a port and some packages of some of my own piece of software. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ Sincerely, Gergely Czuczy mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Weenies test. Geniuses solve problems that arise.
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