> -----Original Message----- > From: Marc Espie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 6:43 PM > To: Will H. Backman > Cc: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: package installation script hints > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:35:13PM -0400, Will H. Backman wrote: > > 1. Packages get installed in a sub-optimal order. Quite often one > > package on the list will have already been installed as a dependency. I > > think my script downloads the redundant package before deciding that it > > was already installed. Good ways to stop that? > > Put the full list in the single pkg_add you want to run, this will get > sorted appropriately. > > PKG_PATH=ftplocation pkg_add `cat pkglist` > is about what you want.
Nice to see that pkg_add doesn't actually need the .tgz when PKG_PATH is specified. That reduces the need for a lot of my code. Just "ls /var/db/pkg > pkglist" and move that list to a new host and run pkg_add `cat pkglist`, with PKG_PATH properly set of course. Two more interesting things (assuming you found any of this interesting). 1 - If the new host happens to have one of those packages installed, perhaps because I stopped the installation of packages the first time, then pkg_add will stop when it hits an already installed package. I can fix that with pkg_delete `ls /var/db/pkg` and start over, but perhaps there is a better way? 2 - How is pkg_add -u working for people?
