Using pkg_add fetch only

Dirk Engling erdgeist at erdgeist.org
Fri Jan 6 15:41:34 PST 2006


On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, John Baldwin wrote:

> I use a shell script that downloads a package with fetch, extracts +CONTENTS
> to a temporary directory and parses it for dependencies, then downloads any
> missing dependencies and adds them.

This sounds like the most reasonable solution. I can't assume the user to 
run a current version of pkg_add and grepping for dependencies is not that 
hard.. only pity is that I would be duplicating code that is already there 
in the base system.

Thanks

   erdgeist


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