On 23 Sep 2007, at 19:51, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote:
Please try not to top-post while replying to freebsd mailing list. It
makes it hard to follow reading from the archives. Comments below.
I'm sorry, was I guilty of top-posting? Didn't mean to :P
Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
On 23 Sep 2007, at 15:35, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote:
Kris Kennaway wrote:
Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
Hi, trying to find out where the complete packge files are for the
packges that I compiled from ports. I wanted to save these
somewhere
so I wouldn't have to recompile them in the future. The handbook
doesn't shed any light on this:(
They are not saved separately but you can create backups using
pkg_create -b.
In addition, you can use 'package' (or 'package-recursive') target
instead of 'install' to create packages automagically. In that case
target directory is set by PACKAGES variable.
Have a look at ports(7) manpage for details.
Many thanks too all who ansered, that's really helpful. I just had a
hard time compiling lighttpd and php5 together, so wanted to save
them
as packages to spare me the headache in the near future.
Have read the ports man I see that I can change the PACKAGES in the
environment, but how do I change the environment. Would I edit
/etc/make.conf at a guess?
PACKAGES is environmental variable - you'll want to change the
variable,
not the environment ;)
To change it system wide permanently - yes, editing /etc/make.conf
would
be a good idea. The alternatives are setting it in your shell
environment (depends on what you use) or defining it at install time
(every time) with something like 'make PACKAGES=/some/dir package'.
And
there are probably other methods, too :)
Thanks, I'll look in to this, glad that my wild guess wasn't too far
wide
Regards
Gabe
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