Once you have built and installed a package, you can create a binary package which can be installed on another system with &man.pkg.add.1;. This saves having to build the same package on a group of hosts and wasting CPU time. It also provides a simple means for others to install your package, should you distribute it. To create a binary package, change into the appropriate directory in pkgsrc, and run make package: &rprompt; cd misc/figlet &rprompt; make package This will build and install your package (if not already done), and then build a binary package from what was installed. You can then use the pkg_* tools to manipulate it. Binary packages are created by default in /usr/pkgsrc/packages, in the form of a gzipped tar file. See for a continuation of the above misc/figlet example. See for information on how to submit such a binary package. See .