Subject: Re: package dependency and fetching
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Christoph Badura <bad@oreilly.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/17/1999 20:53:00
tron@zhadum.de (Matthias Scheler) writes:

>In article <3018.934897928@coconut.itojun.org>,
>	itojun@iijlab.net writes:
>> 	make fetch-list is for distfiles (source codes).  I meant compiled
>> 	binary packages, like those found in
>> 	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.4/i386.

>pkg_add "ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.4.1/i386/All/foobar.tgz"
>will automatically fetch and install all packages.

But it won't store the packages locally and you have to install them.
That doesn't sound like what itojun wanted.

-- 
Christoph Badura					www.netbsd.org

	Anything that can be done in O(N) can be done in O(N^2).
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