From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Nov 11 22:38:46 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 1618037B401 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 22:38:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D3243E77 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 22:38:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAC6cR3f089874; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:38:27 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAC6cQ06089873; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:38:26 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:38:26 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Mike Jeays Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PKG-ADD suggestion Message-ID: <20021112063826.GB89822@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <3DD03FDF.5020302@rogers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DD03FDF.5020302@rogers.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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, Nov 11, 2002 at 06:40:15PM -0500, 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 > environment variable that would specify the directory where > the tarball was to be placed; if the environment variable were > not defined, the tarball would not be saved. One could then > periodically burn a CD containing tarballs for packages that had > been installed via FTP, and save future downloading resources. Why? You can always recreate an installed package with: pkg_create -b name-of-installed-package -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Vini, vidi, velcro... I came, I saw, I stuck around To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message