Help for making a FreeBSD package

[K2S]

Hello,

For a software I patched/worked on, I have to provide package support for various platforms different than my own. This includes RHEL, Debian, FreeBSD, both i386 and AMD64 releases. My experience is mostly with Red Hat/CentOS, which is my own system. I have experience with RPM packages and have completed the Linux part, but have difficulty with the FreeBSD part, considering my limited experience with the OS. How to accomplish this? Can you guide me or give me a good tutorial on the topic?

I don't have FreeBSD installed, but thanks to a friend sysadmin I now have an account on a remote FreeBSD 9.1 AMD64 system.

 

[wblock@]

We have a whole book on creating ports: FreeBSD Porter's Handbook.

 

[K2S]

Thank you, I shall read through it, test and write again if there is anything unclear.

 

[SirDice]

Once you have the port set up correctly you can create a package with make package. See ports(7).