Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:36:58 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fetching precompiled packages for external install Message-ID: <48AB4B0A.7090900@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080819235050.7341a5f3.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20080819181714.fb9d5ea1.freebsd@edvax.de> <48AB2051.2020303@gmail.com> <20080819235050.7341a5f3.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:34:41 +0300, Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> wrote: > >> See this discussion in -questions a few days ago: >> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-August/180001.html >> > > Hmmm... this seems to refer to a procedure involving ports. I don't > wanted to compile anything, just a "recursive fetch". Please see my > other reply for the ugly solution I found. > > It doesn't have to be done through ports, you can still get the packages using pkg_add -r and then recreate them using pkg_create -Rb. Side effect is the packages will be installed on the download machine, and that may not be what you want. But you could probably use a jail to avoid this.
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