Create binary package without ports?

mike_plumbs

I am trying to build a binary package on the FreeBSD operating system. All the guides I found are saying basically to build binary package from already installed software using ports. What I am searching for a way to get that done without installing ports. Is this possible? My code is written in Go. So source contains one binary compiled out of Go code and configuration files.

Originally asked by shivams on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

The Documentation of the Packageformat can be found here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng#Package_format You Don't have to install the software to create a Package. during make package in a port, it is installed into a staging directory and then tar'ed up.

Full answer by arved: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/265496 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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