Using pkg_add fetch only

[Alexander Nedotsukov]

Hi,
Please, do not forget to CC krion@ He is current maintainer of pkg* tools.
All the best,
Alexander.

Dirk Engling wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> Regards
>
>   erdgeist
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