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Date:      Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:34:41 +0300
From:      Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Fetching precompiled packages for external install
Message-ID:  <48AB2051.2020303@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080819181714.fb9d5ea1.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <20080819181714.fb9d5ea1.freebsd@edvax.de>

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Polytropon wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'd like to know if somebody could point me to a command which allows
> me to solve the following task:
>
> I have a machine that is not connected to the Internet. If it was, I
> would use 
>
> 	# pkg_add -r <package>
>
> to install the software I want. I have another machine with Internet
> access, so I'd like to pre-fetch the packages and their dependencies
> in order to put them on a CD or PD (yes, that's for real!) to transfer
> them to the other machine and use pkg_add there.
>
> I know that it's possible to download packages one by one, but is there
> a way to include all the dependencies automatically?
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>   
See this discussion in -questions a few days ago:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-August/180001.html



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