Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:38:26 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PKG-ADD suggestion Message-ID: <20021112063826.GB89822@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <3DD03FDF.5020302@rogers.com> References: <3DD03FDF.5020302@rogers.com>
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On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 06:40:15PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote:
> It would be useful if pkg_add had an option that made it store a
> copy of the tarball on the local machine whenever it had to
> fetch it with FTP. Perhaps it could be triggered by defining an
> environment variable that would specify the directory where
> the tarball was to be placed; if the environment variable were
> not defined, the tarball would not be saved. One could then
> periodically burn a CD containing tarballs for packages that had
> been installed via FTP, and save future downloading resources.
Why? You can always recreate an installed package with:
pkg_create -b name-of-installed-package
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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