Creating Packages

[Sport]

I'm looking at attempt to install dnsmasq on my FreeNas installation, but need the the actuall package as 'make' is not available. How would I go about creating the package in the full vesion of freeBSD first so that I can use the FreeNas to install the package. fyi - I am a noob to FreeBSD, but do have linux experience.

 

[fronclynne]

make package
or
make package-recursive

make sure any base system libraries used are [identical? similar enough?]

 

[phoenix]

You can also create packages for already-installed apps using pkg_create -bx appname. -b tells it to create a backup package. -x lets you specify partial application names (otherwise you have to list the full name and version number, as shown by pkg_info).

 

[Sport]

what if make is not currently an available command, is there a package I need to load for that?

 

[SirDice]

Unless you've customized the base OS it's part of the build tools (gcc et al) which is in the base.