On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 02:02:59PM +0100, Hannah Schroeter wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 02:01:03PM +0100, Dorian B|ttner wrote: > >is there an easy way to fetch a package along with it's recursive > >dependencies? Scenario is: > >eee904ha does not have network access at all right now. In order to > >proceed installing useful things, let's say firefox, I'd like to suck > >packages onto a usb stick and installl from there. > >I thought I could go to the soekris box, which unfortunately isn't that > >-current, and do something like pkg_add -n mozilla -firefox, but the > >output is totally garbled with libc mismatches and things like that. > > >Any idea? > > I'd think using a net connected box, setting PKG_CACHE and PKG_PATH and > then pkg_add -n <package_you_want>. The required packages should end up > in the PKG_CACHE directory. From there you should be able to transfer > them over to the eeepc. If the soekris isn't current, you could try this > in a chroot environment or a virtual machine (e.g. qemu) setup.
Yep, that's the intent. PKG_CACHE + pkg_add -n will do it. As far as shared libs go, there's nothing wrong with adding the new shared libs in your soekris /usr/lib: grab base*.tgz xbase*tgz, untar just the *.so.* thingies, and put them in /usr/lib...
