On 6/10/06, Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakheshster@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there an option to save the pkg_add'ed binary packages locally? All
> I could find was this[1] post from late last year, from which I get
> the idea such an option did not exist at that time. In the pkg_add
> manpage too, I dont find any such options/ env variables ...
>
> Thanks,
> Rakhesh
>
> [1] -- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.help/13512
>
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I wanted this functionality as well (and the ability to check
signatures of remote files) so I wrote a patch to do this.
Unfortunately I never cleaned and polished it, but hopefully you can
pickup where I left off.

See the -d option
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2005/02/12/0009.html
Use `uudecode -rm` to decode the patch.

-todd[1]