How to use cached packages

[Miroslav Lachman]

Freddie Cash wrote on 2017/04/20 22:17:
> 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 think it is "pkg add /var/cache/pkg/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.

Miroslav Lachman