From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 6 23:41:34 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 3FDD616A420 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 23:41:34 +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 4BB0043D46 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 23:41:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from erdgeist@erdgeist.org) Received: (qmail 5046 invoked by uid 0); 6 Jan 2006 23:40:42 -0000 Received: from erdgeist.org (erdgeist@erdgeist.org@80.237.196.15) by elektropost.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 6 Jan 2006 23:40:42 -0000 Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 00:40:42 +0100 (CET) From: Dirk Engling To: John Baldwin In-Reply-To: <200601061635.51715.jhb@freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20060107003747.I13365@erdgeist.org> References: <20060106205744.O13365@erdgeist.org> <20060106215502.H13365@erdgeist.org> <99814990-316A-4099-A96D-083F90E5689E@submonkey.net> <200601061635.51715.jhb@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 23:41:34 -0000 On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, John Baldwin wrote: > I use a shell script that downloads a package with fetch, extracts +CONTENTS > to a temporary directory and parses it for dependencies, then downloads any > missing dependencies and adds them. This sounds like the most reasonable solution. I can't assume the user to run a current version of pkg_add and grepping for dependencies is not that hard.. only pity is that I would be duplicating code that is already there in the base system. Thanks erdgeist