I think there's the tool we want in netbsd for installing pkgs (either as 
binary or via pkgsrc, including loading pkgsrc on the machine) after 
sysinst.

Please test & send feedback on pkg_select right to the author.


  - Hubert

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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:30:44 +0100 (CET)
From: iMil <imil@home.imil.net>
To: tech-pkg@NetBSD.org, pkgsrc-wip-review@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: pkg_select upgrade

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Hi pkgsrc crowd,

there have been lots of work on pkg_select since my last post. Many ideas 
everyone gave are now part of this import to pkgsrc-wip.
Among them :

. config file support
. pine-like [o]ther commands submenu
. default to show progress bars instead of shell output
   - this is of course configurable if you prefer seeing console output
. basic preference screen
. Remy Chibois's readline-like popup handling
. CVS checkout / update should be now fixed along with some improvements
. Ability to browse pkgsrc and perform binary installs over a live
   FTP link, i.e. without having pkgsrc installed on the system
   - test it with :
     pkg_select -l # will activate live-ftp, giving mirror choice
     pkg_select -l -m # do not read Makefiles from FTP mirror
     pkg_select -l [-m] -u ftp://some.pkgsrc/mirror

some changes are NetBSD-only related, but pkg_select still work on FreeBSD. 
Don't know yet for Darwin and OpenBSD.

As always, tests and feedback are welcome. Latest version is available from 
wip/pkg_select

Thanks,

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