Subject: Re: howto pkg_tarup *all* packages of a system
To: Harry Waddell <waddell@caravan.com>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Timo_Sch=F6ler?= <eclipser23@web.de>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/07/2004 09:43:04
> Here's how I do it:
>
> pkg_tarup -D /path/to/someplace_other_than/tmp \*
>
> I regularly build on one system, or a chrooted environmnet,
> and copy packages to another. Sometimes in my haste, I forget to add
>
> DEPENDS_TARGET=package
>
> to /etc/mk.conf and I have to use pkg_tarup as in the fashion shown 
> above.
>
> I hope that helps.
>
> -- 
> Harry Waddell
> Caravan Electronic Publishing
> -----------

thanks harry,

that was what i was looking for :)

as i wrote, i tried to strip pkg_info's output and pipe it to 
pkg_tarup, but this solution is much nicer.

thanks a lot!

regards,

timo