On 15/11/06, Matthew Closson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 08:24:16AM -0500, Marc Ravensbergen wrote:
>> Hi, is there any way I can find out the entire list of files (and
>> dependencies) needed before installing a given package? Let's say I
>> want to add "wget" to openbsd. I export the PKG_PATH to the
>> appropriate mirror, then type "pkg_add wget". This will do the
>> installation of wget and all dependencies, but I would like to know
>> before the actual installation what files are needed (if possible of
>> course).
>>
>> My reason for this is so that I can generate a complete list of files
>> needed to download for a given program, run over to a computer with
>> high speed, download, run back to my computer, dump the files in the
>> correct directory (/var/db/pkg) and then install the package.
>>
>> In this case, wget is very small, but what about Gnome, KDE...
>>
>> I am thinking of the feature in Synaptic that lets you generate an
>> installation script; all the files and dependencies needed for a
>> given package are then saved to a text file as a script.
>>
>> If this is possible, can somebody let me know?
>> Thanks,
>> Marc
>
There's always http://ports.openbsd.nu/ too which can come in very handy.
Cheers z0mbix
