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From: "Matt Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
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Subject: Re: Using pkg_add fetch only
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> 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?

What about pkg_fetch -R?

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Matt Emmerton