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  • I am in fact skipping the whole binary ports part, as there is nothing to build for my package, it’s literally a matter of dropping a bunch of files from the source tree onto the target system. Creating a port, i.e. telling a build system mostly made for building native code from C sources, to copy a few files, seems like massive overkill for this use case. Even with ports I would still need separate binary packages for, say, distributions with only curl available and those with only wget, since pkg does not seem to have a way for a binary package to say “I need either curl or wget”. Commented Apr 20, 2024 at 17:10
  • Overkill?!? Minimal makefile is 8 lines for the basic info and then a plist file which lists your files. See Quick porting and simple example. You do have the option for pre/postinstall scripts. See pkg. The goal is however not clear: Distributions? FreeBSD has fetch in the base system. Commented Apr 20, 2024 at 18:35