From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 11 21:34:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A42237B401 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 21:34:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from pilchuck.reedmedia.net (pilchuck.reedmedia.net [209.166.74.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B69F443E3B for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 21:34:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from reed@reedmedia.net) Received: from reed by pilchuck.reedmedia.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18BTh0-0005Kn-00; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 21:34:30 -0800 Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 21:34:30 -0800 (PST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: Mike Jeays Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PKG-ADD suggestion In-Reply-To: <3DD03FDF.5020302@rogers.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Mike Jeays wrote: > It would be useful if pkg_add had an option that made it store a > copy of the tarball on the local machine whenever it had to > fetch it with FTP. Perhaps it could be triggered by defining an I agree (because I didn't want package re-ftp'd when there were problems). I worked on a patch for NetBSD's pkg_add to do that. You may want to use a mailing list that discusses the package tools (maybe freebsd-ports). You may want to check the open reports to see if someone has suggested it before. Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message