Re: Operating offline (not on Internet)

[Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost>]

Will Senn <will.senn%gmail.com@localhost> writes:

> On 8/13/24 19:00, Brad Spencer wrote:
>> local pkgsrc instance,
> By this do you mean rsyncing a mirror locally of something along the 
> lines of:
> https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/10.0_2024Q2/All/
>
> for the latest as of now?
>
> Will


Yes, that is one way to do it if you don't want to build anything
yourself.  Depending on how organized you are, you may end up pulling
down a lot of packages, but if disk space and network download time /
cost are not factors, that may not matter.  I honestly don't know how
large an entire bulk artifact repo is these days.

You can also just build the packages you want with the options you like.
I do this mostly because I don't like a number of the usual options that
many packages use and I also use a very small subset of the available
packages from pkgsrc.  I organize the builds using local meta packages
which pull in just exactly what I want for each system type.  My repo
for amd64, for example, is only 2GB and contains only about 630
packages.  This repo contains all packages for any amd64 system type I
have.  The i386 and arm repos are even smaller.







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