Subject: Re: pkg_add ftp get over and over
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/19/2001 03:20:21
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> What can I do to make pkg_add download each package only one time?

Such a "do not install depends" switch is not available, though it might
be handy at times.


> Is pkg_add getting the entire gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.tgz file each time? Or is
> it stopping the ftp get when it finishes with the file list?

When you see that output, it's going to ftp(1), so ... yes, unfortunately.
Of course that should not happen... 


 - Hubert

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