Hello, Is there a way to do multiple queries at once using pkg_info? Something like:
pkg_info -Q query1 query2 ... The best I've found so far is to do something like: for q in query1 query2 ...; do pkg_info -Q $q; done which is slow when the list of queries is long (my network bandwidth is not what I would like it to be...) Background: I'm running 6.5-release and would like to upgrade to 6.6-release by doing an offline upgrade, downloading the base system and packages in advance at work to do the upgrade offline later at home (where my network bandwidth is even worse than at work). So for packages I would like to do something like this, in a script (with the hope that package dependencies have not changed too much between 6.5 and 6.6): export PKG_PATH=.../6.6/packages/... pkg_info -z | xargs pkg_info -q -Q | while read p; do wget $PKG_PATH/$p.tgz; done (or even better: pkg_info -z | pkg_info -q -Q | while ...) Note: I also tried to combine pkg_info with pkg_add: export PKG_PATH=.../6.6/packages/... export PKG_CACHE=... pkg_info -mz > pkglist pkg_add -n -l pkglist but: 1) pkg_add only downloads into $PKG_CACHE the packages listed in the pkglist file, not the dependencies; 2) pkg_add deletes each package it downloads after the download is finished. Is there some magic combination of options that I can use with pkg_add to make it download and keep all the packages listed in the pkglist file, plus all the required dependencies? (being able to do: pkg_info -mz | pkg_add -n -l would be nice too!) Thanks, Philippe
