Hum. I also used 'make package' a couple of weeks ago. And I was 
surprised to see that packages were *built* but also *installed* on the 
building machine.So I guess that 'make package' too ( like make clean ) 
performs the install step.
Best regards.
D. Aubril

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, netbsd-users@rmroppert.info wrote:
>
>   
>> As described in the pkgsrc guide (Appendix B.1 and B.2) i do:
>>
>> -->make
>> -->make install
>> or
>> -->make update
>>     
>
>
> Are you doing a "make clean" before attempting your packaging?
>
>
>   
>> Then if i do
>> --> make package
>> i always get the error
>> " ... already installed - perhaps an older version?
>> ...
>> make stopped.
>>
>> Isn't it possible to build an package of an an already installed
>> package or is there another way to do this?
>>     
>
> If you do a "make clean" then it attempts to do the "install" step again. 
> The error you see is from the "install" step.
>
> If you want to create a package from something installed also see the 
> pkgtools/pkg_tarup package.
>
>
>   Jeremy C. Reed
>
>