Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 03:02:48 -0300 From: Duane Whitty <duane@greenmeadow.ca> To: Low Kian Seong <freebsd.low@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do you tell pkg_add to just download the packages ? Message-ID: <4445D288.8060108@greenmeadow.ca> In-Reply-To: <a6baaade0604182128h71f6ca9an95f86846aca5292f@mail.gmail.com> References: <a6baaade0604182128h71f6ca9an95f86846aca5292f@mail.gmail.com>
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Low Kian Seong 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. > _______________________________________________ > Hi, Try portupgrade(1) (man 1 portupgrade) # cd /usr/ports # portupgrade -NFPPv name-of-package This says this may be a new installation "N" Go get the files (packages), do not install anything "F" Use packages only, fail if packages not available "PP" (important to use two upper-case Ps here) Be verbose "v" If you also want to fetch dependencies you can add -R. This will recurse through all the dependencies the new package needs # cd /usr/ports # portupgrade -NFPPRv name-of-package Best Regards, Duane Whitty -- duane@greenmeadow.ca
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