On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Andrew Brampton <brampton+free...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Julien, > > Glad you got onto the GSoC programme. I'm curious, what benefit is a > complete package over many individual ones?
Hi Andrew, If you cant or dont want to use the remote feature of of pkg_add (ex. your packages are built with non default options and you think its overkill to setup a server to distribute them) then you make a complete package. You only have to copy one file (say on an usb device), which is less error prone than 150 files. The global idea is to write a meta port which depends on the desired ports, type `make complete-package`, copy the output file on the machine to bootstrap, pkg_add /path/to/complete-pkg and voila! Regards, Julien _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
