[nycbug-talk] Building FreeBSD packages without installing

[Marc Spitzer]

On 1/10/06, Charles Sprickman <spork at bway.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm building a few hundred ports that will get shoved to another machine
> when done.  I have no desire to actually have these ports installed on the
> build machine...  Looking at the ports manpage and the handbook, this is
> not possible ("make package" and "make package-recursive" install then
> build the pkg from the installed files).
>
> I know OpenBSD handles this well, in fact they seem to default to building
> a package and THEN install that.  Very nifty.
>
> Are there any tricks to emulate this behaviour in FreeBSD, like somehow
> installing into a dummy hierarchy?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles

you could do it in a jail.

marc


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