On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:29:13AM +0000, Laurence Tratt wrote: > As a possibly complimentary idea to PKG_CACHE, I wrote a simple script a > while back which bulk downloads packages: > > http://tratt.net/laurie/computing/obsd/packagesbootstrap/ > > I use this to download packages onto a local machine before doing a pkg_add, > which helps minimise any service down time
You don't need this script to minimize service down time. The normal way to slurp down packages of on an installed machine is to run pkg_add -uin with PKG_CACHE set (in fact, I had to tweak pkg_add -n behavior right after implementing PKG_CACHE to make sure it would download the whole package). Then, once your full set is downloaded, you can pkg_add them.
