From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 27 18:54:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B68214DDF for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 18:54:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 11VmTn-00003Y-00; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 19:54:55 -0600 Message-ID: <37F02000.654DDFEA@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 19:55:12 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Rosengart Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Rosengart wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote: > > > I don't see why we need a pkg_get or whatever when pkg_add already has > > remote (with or without -r) functions, and adds dependencies just fine. > > Well, I for one would like a command that fetches a package without > installing it. I don't see any option to pkg_add for that. See fetch(1). ;^) (Sorry, catching up after a weekend of the flu.) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message