On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:35:16 -0600, Adam Vande More <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Thanks for the tips, I may add some of your functionality to my own.
> I think I might add a couple more features like accepting a backup
> path from the command line and an auto create for the dir if it
> doesn't exist. One other thing that might be useful is for it to
> automatically create an install script for the backed up packages
> which takes into account dependencies. Almost have a package
> management system like some other unnamed OS's then. ;)
This is bordering on creeping featuritis, so I would probably avoid
going there. If you *have* a backup of the packages, you can start by
installing portupgrade. Then you can point portupgrade at the package
archive and use the -PP option to install all the dependencies.
Then you can avoid all that and just use something like:
cd /mnt/backup/packages/All
pkg_add vim-lite\*tbz
This will automatically install any packages vim-lite needs, as long as
they are available in the current working directory.
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