[csw-maintainers] pkg-get/pkgutil: Download full dependency tree for offline installation?

[Philip Brown]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 04:07:44PM +0200, Sebastian Kayser wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i have some machines that are not connected to the internet, where i would
> like to install some OpenCSW packages. What would be the best way to
> download these packages (inluding dependencies) for offline installation?
> I don't want to pull the whole mirror, just the packages and their deps.
> 
> I have thought about setting up a full root zone w/o CSW packages and do a
> pkg-get/pkgutil -d there, but i would prefer if there was an easier way.

That's about the least annoying method i can think of, unfortunately.
slightly improved by the fact that, once you have the ones you want
downloaded, you can also download the catalog to that directory, and then
use the usual tools to that dir.