pkg_create -b

[jlenthe]

I just discovered pkg_create -b today. I'm very happy because I've been trying to maintain a set of packages for my installed ports by setting PACKAGES and doing portupgrade -ap and make package. This approach was OK, but I ended up with a package repository that contained packages for a lot of old versions.

Enter pkg_create -b. Now I can use the following shell script to obtain a set of package files for all my installed ports:

#!/bin/sh

for pkg in `pkg_info -E '*'`
do
  pkg_create -b $pkg
  echo $pkg package complete.
done

 

[DutchDaemon]

Please don't use fonts; there are specific tags for commands, output and code:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=8816

 

[bdrewery@]

Simpler method

pkg_create(1) accepts regex, so you can just run 1 cmd:

pkg_create -vxb '.*'

 

[SirDice]

Since you have ports-mgmt/portupgrade installed you can clean outdated packages with # portsclean -P.