Using pkg_add fetch only
Matt Emmerton
matt at gsicomp.on.ca
Fri Jan 6 12:54:37 PST 2006
> Good evening,
>
> I'm writing on the ezjail project and want to be able to use the easy
> interface of pkg_add to fetch packages recursively.
>
> This is _fetch_, not install them, since installation is expected to
> happen at a later stage when starting up lots of jails each being
> identical.
>
> Clearly pkg_add does not provide this option. Even if it would, it would
> declare some dependencies fulfilled since packages are installed in the
> hostsystem already.
>
> Anyone having an idea here, besides rewriting pkg_add?
What about pkg_fetch -R?
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Matt Emmerton
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