From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 7 15:20:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA05129 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 15:20:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.my.domain (ppp7248.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.249.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05122 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 15:20:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA00343; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 18:18:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 18:18:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@localhost Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: Konstantin Chuguev cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_add from FTP repositary In-Reply-To: <352A10E7.7DF57494@urc.ac.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Konstantin Chuguev wrote: > I'm using a URL as a parameter for pkg_add. But then I cannot > automatically install the packages which the first one depends on. > PKG_PATH is used only for local files. Of course, it is correct, because > searching files in FTP site is expensive. Have you actually tried this? pkg_add(1) is supposed to be able to automatically fetch dependencies over FTP based on the original URL you pass it. I think you need to have all of the packages in the same directory, though. -- tIM...HOEk OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names hoping that the resultant code will run faster. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message