Freddie Cash wrote on 2017/04/20 22:39:
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Miroslav Lachman <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>wrote:Freddie Cash wrote on 2017/04/20 22:17: On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Patrick Powell <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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" Both work. "pkg add" is there for backward compat with the old way (pkg_add). "pkg install" can install from remote repos or local files. From the man pages: DESCRIPTION pkg install is used for installation of packages from package reposito- ries or local archives. Multiple package names can be specified on the command line, either explicitly orby matching against package names (or origins) in the repositorycatalogues using shell globbingor regular expressions. DESCRIPTION pkg add installs packages from either a local source or a remote one. When installing from a remote source you need to specify the protocol to use when fetching the package. For ease of use, "pkg install" works for everything. :)
I do not remember exactly why I am using pkg add. Maybe pkg install did not work for me in the past (when downgrading from /var/cache/pkg) or maybe because pkg add will not try to fetch from repo defined in /usr/local/etc/
Anyway good to know both works :) Miroslav Lachman _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
