Re: How do you tell pkg_add to just download the packages ?
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:28:57 +0800 Low Kian Seong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I come from a debian background, and in debian you can pass an argument to apt-get to tell it to download all the packages first without installing them first, is there a similar argument that I can pass to pkg_add ( I want to use binaries ) or are there other tools I can use ? man pkg_fetch Actually, you would do well to familiarize yourself with *all* of the pkg_* tools. man -k pkg Then, when you're ready, install portupgrade and forget about all of that stuff. :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- In Unix veritas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do you tell pkg_add to just download the packages ?
Low Kian Seong wrote: Dear all, I come from a debian background, and in debian you can pass an argument to apt-get to tell it to download all the packages first without installing them first, is there a similar argument that I can pass to pkg_add ( I want to use binaries ) or are there other tools I can use ? Thanks. ___ Hi, Try portupgrade(1) (man 1 portupgrade) # cd /usr/ports # portupgrade -NFPPv name-of-package This says this may be a new installation N Go get the files (packages), do not install anything F Use packages only, fail if packages not available PP (important to use two upper-case Ps here) Be verbose v If you also want to fetch dependencies you can add -R. This will recurse through all the dependencies the new package needs # cd /usr/ports # portupgrade -NFPPRv name-of-package Best Regards, Duane Whitty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do you tell pkg_add to just download the packages ?
Dear all, I come from a debian background, and in debian you can pass an argument to apt-get to tell it to download all the packages first without installing them first, is there a similar argument that I can pass to pkg_add ( I want to use binaries ) or are there other tools I can use ? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do you tell pkg_add to just download the packages ?
--- Low Kian Seong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I come from a debian background, and in debian you can pass an argument to apt-get to tell it to download all the packages first without installing them first, is there a similar argument that I can pass to pkg_add ( I want to use binaries ) or are there other tools I can use ? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] pkg_add -n says Do not actually install a package, just report the steps that would be taken if it was. But it doesn't say what it will do, so you can give that a try. Another thing to try is make fetch-recursive in one of the items listed in the ports tree you would like to fetch. Find a small package with only a couple of dependencies and see if make fetch-recursive indeed just fetches items and not install (I stried it with Zope3). It downloaded the two packages but didn't install them. Hope that helps. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
