Re: Archiving pkg's added by pkg_add -u

2008-01-28 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:00:22PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: >> As a possibly complimentary idea to PKG_CACHE, I wrote a simple script a >> while back which bulk downloads packages: > You don't need this script to minimize service down time. > > The normal way to slurp down packages of on an instal

Re: Archiving pkg's added by pkg_add -u

2008-01-26 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:29:13AM +, Laurence Tratt wrote: > As a possibly complimentary idea to PKG_CACHE, I wrote a simple script a > while back which bulk downloads packages: > > http://tratt.net/laurie/computing/obsd/packagesbootstrap/ > > I use this to download packages onto a local m

Re: Archiving pkg's added by pkg_add -u

2008-01-26 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:20:50AM +, Edd Barrett wrote: > I was wondering if there is a way that pkg_add -u can save packages that it > installs into a specified directory. > > I think I could save a lot of bandwidth if this were possible, as I have > several machines to update with snapshots

Re: Archiving pkg's added by pkg_add -u

2008-01-25 Thread Edd Barrett
On Jan 25, 2008 10:46 AM, Bernd Ahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Read the pkg_add(1) manpage again and look for PKG_CACHE. Great! Many thanks! -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: Archiving pkg's added by pkg_add -u

2008-01-25 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/01/25 10:20, Edd Barrett wrote: > I was wondering if there is a way that pkg_add -u can save packages > that it installs into a specified directory. See ENVIRONMENT in pkg_add(1).

Re: Archiving pkg's added by pkg_add -u

2008-01-25 Thread Bernd Ahlers
Edd Barrett [Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:20:50AM +] wrote: >I was wondering if there is a way that pkg_add -u can save packages >that it installs into a specified directory. > >I think I could save a lot of bandwidth if this were possible, as I >have several machines to update with snapshots every