From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 6 20:04:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 279B116A41F for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:04:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from erdgeist@erdgeist.org) Received: from elektropost.org (elektropost.org [80.237.196.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58ED243D45 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:04:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from erdgeist@erdgeist.org) Received: (qmail 61386 invoked by uid 0); 6 Jan 2006 20:03:22 -0000 Received: from erdgeist.org (erdgeist@erdgeist.org@80.237.196.15) by elektropost.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 6 Jan 2006 20:03:22 -0000 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 21:03:22 +0100 (CET) From: Dirk Engling To: hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060106205744.O13365@erdgeist.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Subject: Using pkg_add fetch only X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:04:14 -0000 Good evening, I'm writing on the ezjail project and want to be able to use the easy interface of pkg_add to fetch packages recursively. This is _fetch_, not install them, since installation is expected to happen at a later stage when starting up lots of jails each being identical. Clearly pkg_add does not provide this option. Even if it would, it would declare some dependencies fulfilled since packages are installed in the hostsystem already. Anyone having an idea here, besides rewriting pkg_add? Regards erdgeist