Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:59:16 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> 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: <20060420175916.68fe8d68@localhost> In-Reply-To: <a6baaade0604182128h71f6ca9an95f86846aca5292f@mail.gmail.com> References: <a6baaade0604182128h71f6ca9an95f86846aca5292f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:28:57 +0800 "Low Kian Seong" <freebsd.low@gmail.com> 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 ? man pkg_fetch Actually, you would do well to familiarize yourself with *all* of the pkg_* tools. man -k pkg Then, when you're ready, install portupgrade and forget about all of that stuff. :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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