FreeBSD Ports and Packages

by Peter Jones / January 14, 2009

Creating a Package From an Existing Installation

Sometimes it's useful to create a package from a port/package that is already installed. In my case, I needed an outdated and unavailable package that I knew I already had installed somewhere.

For example:

$ pkg_info -Ix cvsup
$ pkg_create -R -b cvsup-16.1h_2

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