Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:08:19 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: creating package repository for offline installation Message-ID: <48974593.407@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48974372.3030406@gmail.com> References: <200808041409.58825.nvass@teledomenet.gr> <4896E955.8010407@gmail.com> <200808041918.12667.nvass@teledomenet.gr> <48974372.3030406@gmail.com>
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Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: >> On Monday 04 August 2008 14:34:45 Manolis Kiagias wrote: >> >>> If you don't mind building the packages (on the remote system) from >>> ports, I would suggest ports-mgmt/tinderbox >>> Comprehensive instructions are located here: >>> http://tinderbox.marcuscom.com/ I've used it for quite some time >>> (http://www.freebsdgr.org/tinderbox/) but lately I've dedicated a >>> machine for package building and I am using a couple of my own simple >>> scripts. >>> >> >> I really don't care about the latest and shiniest programs. >> So, I do mind building from ports. I just want to download >> 20-30 packages along with their dependecies. >> >> I think I've found a relatively cheap way to do just that, >> I am going to use unionfs to create a "replica" of my system, >> mount an empty fs on $JAIL/var/db/pkg, fire up "jail $JAIL" >> and pkg_add -Kr $everything_i_want in there. >> >> //a few of minutes later >> >> Yet to my big surprise(and disappointment) pkg_add -Kr >> does not keep the dependencies, but only the requested >> file e.g. pkg_add -rK bash, downloads all depedencies, >> installs bash and deletes all packages but bash. Not >> much of a progress... >> >> >> > But you can still use the installed packages to recreate everything: > > e.g. pkg_create -Rb bash-x.y.z > > Or, use a simple shell script with pkg_create -b to create packages > from all installed ones, i.e: > > for i in `pkg_info -Ea` > do > pkg_create -b $i > done > And by the way, if you are running 7-STABLE, pkg_create supports a no-clobber option (courtesy of Giorgos ;) ), so if you run it with -R (recursion) it will not keep recreating / overwriting the existing packages in the same directory.
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