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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: frontend utility to create freebsd package?
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:22:03 -0800
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Vincent Chen wrote:
> 
>   Is there any frontend utility available for creating freebsd
> package? I can only install my packages by tar extracting
> but can't delete them by using 'pkg_delete' command.

And no wonder, if you're using tar.  What's wrong with the pkg_add
command?

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project