Hi! On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 08:00:21PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: >On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 02:02:59PM +0100, Hannah Schroeter wrote: >> 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. There's perhaps one thing we've missed: If some dependency package is already installed (and current enough) on the "source" host, pkg_add -n will probably not refetch it, so it will end up missing in the PKG_CACHE, i.e. on the "destination" host. The playing with the signature trick will avoid that, probably. Or perhaps one would need another option to pkg_add (or a different, pkg_fetch or similar, frontend to the pkg_* toolchain) to fetch *all* dependency packages. Kind regards, Hannah.
