Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:18:10 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about packages installed via `pkg_add -r` Message-ID: <4D73FA12.4000104@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4d734567.15evysQIxrkK6d6O%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <20110305150436.GA2175@fbsd.t60.cpu> <20110305154817.GQ30336@core.byshenk.net> <4D72A069.90104@FreeBSD.org> <20110306010015.GC4160@fbsd.t60.cpu> <AANLkTi=_K=q3O3jZZLeDjj9AsckWzu9Sz-Ju7kxhknn9@mail.gmail.com> <4d734567.15evysQIxrkK6d6O%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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On 06/03/2011 08:27, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Last time I tried it, pkg_add -r -K did indeed save local copies of
> the packages fetched from the remote repository, but a problem arose
> when one later wanted to _use_ that local stash while falling back to
> -r behavior for anything not found locally. Last I knew there was no
> easy way to tell pkg_add to do that.
Interestingly, portmaster(8) is good for doing that. These two lines in
portmasterrc (or the equivalent command line options: --packages,
--local-packagedir) make portmaster try to install a package from a
local package repository first, then fall back to fetching packages from
the net, and only then try building the port:
PM_PACKAGES=3Dfirst
LOCAL_PACKAGEDIR=3D/usr/ports/packages
Which is what you want. Or perhaps 'PM_PACKAGES=3Donly' which only uses
pkgs and doesn't build any ports.
Personally I find these most useful combined with a third option:
PM_PACKAGES_LOCAL=3Dpmp_local
(Cmd line: --packages-local) which makes portmaster try to install pkgs
from a local repository first, and failing that, build the port.
Oh, and to save anyone needlessly re-downloading packages: if you've got
the port / package already installed, then you can recreate the pkg
tarball easily by:
# pkg_create -b pkg-name
Add a '-R' to that to create pkg tarballs for everything pkg-name
depends on too. pkg-name will include the version number as shown in
eg. 'pkg_info -Ia' output.
Cheers,
Matthew
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