From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 24 11:35:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EFDD837B402 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 11:35:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 58215 invoked by uid 100); 24 Feb 2002 19:35:12 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15481.16495.636434.350670@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 13:35:11 -0600 To: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" Cc: "Mike Meyer" , "FBSDQ" Subject: RE: How to list port dependencies In-Reply-To: References: <15481.288.969944.692115@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.46 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joe & Fhe Barbish types: > Well lets take the package path them. I did a make deinstall > on /usr/ports/www/lynx and then did pkg_add -vr lynx and > the package was downloaded & installed ok. The problem is > I did not find it's tar file in /usr/ports/distfiles. I did > a pkg_delete lynx and removed it, then a pkg_add -v lynx > hoping the package tar was still on my PC, but it is not. Well, the authors of pkg_add and I apparently agree that there's no earthly reason for wanting the tarball after you've extracted it. However, the pkg_tarup will generate a binary package from an installed package, using the information in /var/db/pkg. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message