Re: Creating port from pre-built package

2021-02-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/02/2021 16:26, Shawn Webb wrote: Being a ports newb, I'm not sure how to properly create a port from a pre-built package. Does anyone have any non-xkcd pointers[1]? A port is simply a set of instructions to build a pkg. So you're looking for a set of instructions to build a pkg from a p

Re: Creating port from pre-built package

2021-02-11 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 11.02.21 um 18:12 schrieb Shawn Webb: On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 06:09:52PM +0100, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hi all, Am 11.02.2021 um 18:03 schrieb Chris : On 2021-02-11 08:26, Shawn Webb wrote: Hey all, The Splunk universal forwarder for FreeBSD is distributed as a package tarball that you c

Re: Creating port from pre-built package

2021-02-11 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 11.02.21 um 18:12 schrieb Shawn Webb: On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 06:09:52PM +0100, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hi all, Am 11.02.2021 um 18:03 schrieb Chris : On 2021-02-11 08:26, Shawn Webb wrote: Hey all, The Splunk universal forwarder for FreeBSD is distributed as a package tarball that you c

Re: Creating port from pre-built package

2021-02-11 Thread Chris
On 2021-02-11 09:08, Shawn Webb wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 09:03:19AM -0800, Chris wrote: On 2021-02-11 08:26, Shawn Webb wrote: > Hey all, > > The Splunk universal forwarder for FreeBSD is distributed as a package > tarball that you can use `pkg add` on. I'm in a position where I'd > like t

Re: Creating port from pre-built package

2021-02-11 Thread Shawn Webb
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 06:09:52PM +0100, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Hi all, > > > Am 11.02.2021 um 18:03 schrieb Chris : > > > > On 2021-02-11 08:26, Shawn Webb wrote: > >> Hey all, > >> The Splunk universal forwarder for FreeBSD is distributed as a package > >> tarball that you can use `pkg add

Re: Creating port from pre-built package

2021-02-11 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hi all, > Am 11.02.2021 um 18:03 schrieb Chris : > > On 2021-02-11 08:26, Shawn Webb wrote: >> Hey all, >> The Splunk universal forwarder for FreeBSD is distributed as a package >> tarball that you can use `pkg add` on. I'm in a position where I'd >> like to create a port of the package so that I

Re: Creating port from pre-built package

2021-02-11 Thread Shawn Webb
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 09:03:19AM -0800, Chris wrote: > On 2021-02-11 08:26, Shawn Webb wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > The Splunk universal forwarder for FreeBSD is distributed as a package > > tarball that you can use `pkg add` on. I'm in a position where I'd > > like to create a port of the packag

Re: Creating port from pre-built package

2021-02-11 Thread Chris
On 2021-02-11 08:26, Shawn Webb wrote: Hey all, The Splunk universal forwarder for FreeBSD is distributed as a package tarball that you can use `pkg add` on. I'm in a position where I'd like to create a port of the package so that I can automate certain tasks. Reverse engineer a package? I thin

Creating port from pre-built package

2021-02-11 Thread Shawn Webb
Hey all, The Splunk universal forwarder for FreeBSD is distributed as a package tarball that you can use `pkg add` on. I'm in a position where I'd like to create a port of the package so that I can automate certain tasks. Being a ports newb, I'm not sure how to properly create a port from a pre-b