Freddie Cash wrote on 2017/04/20 22:17:
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Patrick Powell <papow...@astart.com>
wrote:
I ran into a problem where I needed to reinstall a package. However, I
did not have network access to the pkg repository. I did have a system
which had all of the pkgs which I needed in the pkg cache. I can easily
copy these to the system, as well as the pkg database, etc.
So: is there a SIMPLE way to have pkg check to see if a pkg is already in
the pkg cache and use that before trying to go to the repository?
Is there a SIMPLE way to prevent pkg from trying to check the pkg
repository for an update?
I strongly suspect that something like:
pkg --do_not_check_for_latest_version --use_cached_pkg install firefox
Any help on this before I tear out the three strands of hair I have left
would be appreciated.
If you have the .txz/.tbz package file, then it's a simple:
# pkg install /path/to/firefox-versions-blahblah.txz
I think it is "pkg add /var/cache/pkg/firefox-versions-blahblah.txz"
I believe you can specify multiple packages on the command-line and it
will install them all. If there are required dependencies, you'll have to
specify them on the command-line as well. If you specify all the packages
on the CLI, then it won't check the remote repo.
There's also a flag you can add to prevent it from doing a
behind-the-scenes "pkg upgrade" before the install. Ah yes, it's -U or
--no-repo-update.
Miroslav Lachman
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