Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:56:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Anderson <ciscoaix@yahoo.com> To: Low Kian Seong <freebsd.low@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do you tell pkg_add to just download the packages ? Message-ID: <20060419045653.17002.qmail@web52705.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <a6baaade0604182128h71f6ca9an95f86846aca5292f@mail.gmail.com>
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--- Low Kian Seong <freebsd.low@gmail.com> 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 > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > 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
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