On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> I have a 486 with a small hard drive (under 1 GB) and
32 MB ram.
>
> I can successfully install and set up NetBSD but I
would like to add a
> few binary packages to the install. I'm on dialup (2
KB/s).
>
> Do I have to install the whole pkgsrc tarball to do
it?
No.
> I ran out of time last night to see if the base ftp
client can resume an
> interrupted download.
See ftp's:
-R Restart all non-proxied auto-fetches.
(and "reget" and "mreget" for
interactive ftp).
> Does pkg_add have any facility to permit interrupted
installs of binary
> packages? My phone line is unreliable and may also be
needed for normal
> phone use.
I'd suggest that you download the packages a head of time
first (using ftp
for example).
(I have a script I use for that if you want to test.)
> Is there a way to get pkg_add to give a preview of how
much disk space
> will be used by a package and all upon which it
depends;
>
> and how big the download is;
>
> and perhaps the list of files it needs to get in case
it would
> be easier to download the tarballs on another box and
transfer
> them via scp?
The download sites have a pkg_summary.gz file that contains
this info.
See pkg_summary man page too.
Look for FILE_SIZE= and DEPENDS=
> The packages I'm interested in are:
>
> mc (midnight commander)
> lynx
> python
> vim with python syntax
One example using my tool:
# pkg_get depends mc
glib2-2.12.12 depends on perl>=5.0 (perl-5.8.8nb4 is
installed)
mc-4.6.1nb3 depends on glib2>=2.8.6nb1
mc-4.6.1nb3 depends on libslang>=1.4.9nb4
mc-4.6.1nb3 depends on perl>=5.0 (perl-5.8.8nb4 is
installed)
mc-4.6.1nb3 depends on unzip-[0-9]*
I am not sure how to handle python with my tool though.
Jeremy C. Reed
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