How to use cached packages

[Freddie Cash]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Patrick Powell <papowell at astart.com>
wrote:

> I ran into a problem where I needed to reinstall a package. However,  I
> did not have network access to the pkg repository.  I did have a system
> which had all of the pkgs which I needed in the pkg cache.  I can easily
> copy these to the system,  as well as the pkg database, etc.
>
> So:  is there a SIMPLE way to have pkg check to see if a pkg is already in
> the pkg cache and use that before trying to go to the repository?
>
> Is there a SIMPLE way to prevent pkg from trying to check the pkg
> repository for an update?
>
> I strongly suspect that something like:
>
> pkg --do_not_check_for_latest_version --use_cached_pkg install firefox
>
> Any help on this before I tear out the three strands of hair I have left
> would be appreciated.


​If you have the .txz/.tbz package file, then it's a simple:

# pkg install /path/to/firefox-versions-blahblah.txz
​
​I believe you can specify multiple packages on the command-line and it
will install them all.  If there are required dependencies, you'll have to
specify them on the command-line as well.  If you specify all the packages
on the CLI, then it won't check the remote repo.

There's also a flag you can add to prevent it from doing a
behind-the-scenes "pkg upgrade" before the​ install.  Ah yes, it's -U or
--no-repo-update.


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Freddie Cash
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