[csw-maintainers] mirroring a subset of pkgs

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Fri Dec 16 11:25:04 CET 2011


Hi Peter,

Am 16.12.2011 um 10:41 schrieb Peter Bonivart:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Daniel Pocock <daniel at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> pkgutil has the ability to run in download-only mode and collect
>> packages for installation later/on other machines
>> 
>> However, it then becomes necessary to manually pkgadd each pkg.gz on the
>> target machine - potentially a painful process
> 
> But it does output all the commands necessary to pkgadd the packages
> in the correct order. You shouldn't have to do more than copy'n'paste
> that.

The resulting thing to be transfered could include a generated install
script and an admin file together with the packages bundles up as tar
or self-installing .sh or something to make things easier.


Best regards

  -- Dago



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