On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:35:16 -0600, Adam Vande More <amvandem...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the tips, I may add some of your functionality to my own. > I think I might add a couple more features like accepting a backup > path from the command line and an auto create for the dir if it > doesn't exist. One other thing that might be useful is for it to > automatically create an install script for the backed up packages > which takes into account dependencies. Almost have a package > management system like some other unnamed OS's then. ;)
This is bordering on creeping featuritis, so I would probably avoid going there. If you *have* a backup of the packages, you can start by installing portupgrade. Then you can point portupgrade at the package archive and use the -PP option to install all the dependencies. Then you can avoid all that and just use something like: cd /mnt/backup/packages/All pkg_add vim-lite\*tbz This will automatically install any packages vim-lite needs, as long as they are available in the current working directory. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"