Solved [Solved]Creating backup packages?

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cd /usr/ports/x11/mate
make install clean

Everything built correctly and installed.

Now, I want to remove MATE and install the pkg of MATE from pkg.FreeBSD.org.

But, before I do, I want to make a backup package. So, if I want to later, I can uninstall the package and just put back the port I built myself.

If I just run pkg create mate or pkg create mate-1.6.0 it spits out a 1.1k package.

How can I tell pkg create to bundle up everything I would need, if I was gonna use this package on a new system, to install a complete install of MATE?

I considered running pkg create mate*
But, that just grabs all the binaries that start with mate?

How can I build a proper package that will conduct a full install of MATE if I took it to a separate workstation and used it?
 
Re: Creating backup packages?

make package will create one under /usr/ports/packages that you can install later with pkg add.
 
Re: Creating backup packages?

Keep in mind that x11/mate is a "meta-port". It doesn't contain anything of itself, it depends on other ports. If you want to make a backup you should create packages for those too.
 
Re: Creating backup packages?

Try portmaster -g (not tested) to obtain those packages, as indicated by @SirDice.
 
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Re: Creating backup packages?

What about pkg create -a? Might be a bit overkill creating a package for everything on the system but if you just installed it from the x11/mate meta port package it would pull back in all the dependencies that you are using.
 
Re: Creating backup packages?

Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do. SO far all I've managed to produce is the 1.1k MATE meta port package.. I need a package that includes everything, but only everything for MATE.

So, hypothetically, lets say I have a workstation with no interwebs®. And I want to install MATE on it using packages, not ports. How could I produce a package, which has all of MATE.

I think I'm gonna have to make a bunch of small packages, tar them up, move, untar, then install them all. Can't find a way of just creating 1 port including the whole MATE.
 
Re: Creating backup packages?

Ah. I understand now. I don't think you can have one massive tarball that just gets read in an installed as one single package. The meta-package just points to everything it needs. How about this?
pkg create -a
pkg repo .

Tar up that folder and untar it on on an FTP/HTTP server and serve to hosts with no internet access. Or just untar it on a single host and do pkg add mate in that directory. It will install all the other packages in that directory that are dependencies of the x11/mate meta-package.
 
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