On Monday 02 February 2009 13:02:59 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.
>
> >Thanks,
> >Dorian
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Hannah.
Thanks,
I'll look out for something to usb-connect to the network then.
Regards,
Dorian
