From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 7 17:20:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA28149 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 17:20:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA28143 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 17:20:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA18867; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 17:18:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: ac199@hwcn.org cc: Konstantin Chuguev , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_add from FTP repositary In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Apr 1998 18:18:16 EDT." Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 17:18:44 -0700 Message-ID: <18864.891994724@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. Well, what it's supposed to do is take the URL apart and try to figure out where its "brother" packages live. If there's no packages/All/ directory on the site in question, that might be difficult. To be honest, it's also been awhile since I've actually tested this feature, but it *is* supposed to work. :-) Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message