Create offline package with all dependencies

iPodClassic

iPodClassic

Is there a way to use pkg-create to create a package (for example openjdk17) that when installed does not require any internet access at all? (that is, to include all it's dependencies)
Also, can I do pkg-create -a and create a complete repo of my local packages in the same fashion, such as these then need no internet access nor perform any updates?
 
Must it be a single package?

If not, you can get all the transitive dependencies for a package with pkg fetch -Udo $TEMP_DIR $PACKAGE_NAME.
That will put all of the packages in $TEMP_DIR. You can distribute those.
Using pkg-fetch(8) will re-download those file, which is not ideal. If you don't want that, you can use the list it prints to copy them from /var/cache/pkg or wherever your pkg cache is.

You can install the with pkg add -A $TEMP_DIR/All/Hashed/*.pkg.
Then pkg set -A0 $PACKAGE_NAME to mark the target package as not automatic (not a dependency).
 
They'll just be downloaded to $TEMP_DIR. That's what the -U option does. It does not attempt to update the package database. I'm not sure its actually necessary.
 
iPodClassic said:
Is there a way to use pkg-create to create a package (for example openjdk17) that when installed does not require any internet access at all? (that is, to include all it's dependencies)
Also, can I do pkg-create -a and create a complete repo of my local packages in the same fashion, such as these then need no internet access nor perform any updates?
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Code: 
     package          Make a binary package for the port.  The port will be
                      installed if it has not already been.  The package is a
                      .pkg file that you can use to install the port on other
                      machines with pkg-add(8).  If the directory specified by
                      PACKAGES does not exist, the package will be put in
                      /usr/ports/category/port/work/pkg.  See PKGREPOSITORY
                      and PKGFILE for more information.

     package-recursive
                      Like package, but makes a package for each depending
                      port as well.
ports(7)
 
SirDice said:
Code: 
     package          Make a binary package for the port.  The port will be
                      installed if it has not already been.  The package is a
                      .pkg file that you can use to install the port on other
                      machines with pkg-add(8).  If the directory specified by
                      PACKAGES does not exist, the package will be put in
                      /usr/ports/category/port/work/pkg.  See PKGREPOSITORY
                      and PKGFILE for more information.

     package-recursive
                      Like package, but makes a package for each depending
                      port as well.
ports(7)
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Thank you! Does this work for packages that are installed from binaries though? How do I get access to `ports` ? Do I have to install ports-tools-1.8 ?
Thanks again!
 
SirDice said:
docs.freebsd.org

Chapter 4. Installing Applications: Packages and Ports

FreeBSD provides two complementary technologies for installing third-party software: the FreeBSD Ports Collection, for installing from source, and packages, for installing from pre-built binaries
docs.freebsd.org docs.freebsd.org
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Awesome, thank you! I checked it out but I was looking for something a bit more straightforward than using `make` or `ports`. But anyway, I think your solution is the best, I might simply download the zip files the ports I'm interested in and then build them, although for example, mysql 8.0.33, when I download the port zip and use make to build, it starts downloading boost and other tools that I wish I had them from the get go and no need to download them, you know what I mean?
Thanks anyway for all the pointers ,they help a lot whilst I switch from Linux to BSD!
 
Also, do you guys have any specific tool you recommend for an FreeBSD noobie to manage ports? I need something that allows me to extract/download specific versions of specific ports, I wish to avoid cloning the complete port tree and/or only using the latest port versions.
 
iPodClassic said:
it starts downloading boost and other tools that I wish I had them from the get go and no need to download them, you know what I mean?
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It's going to try to build all its (missing) dependencies first. You can circumvent this with make install-missing-packages. That will install all its dependencies as packages, saving you some build time.

Code: 
     install-missing-packages
                Install missing dependencies from packages instead of building
                them.

iPodClassic said:
Also, do you guys have any specific tool you recommend for an FreeBSD noobie to manage ports
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De facto standard tool is ports-mgmt/poudriere, it's the tool that's used to create the FreeBSD package repositories. Besides building everything in the ports tree, it can build just a selection of ports, so you can tell it to only build what you need.


iPodClassic said:
I need something that allows me to extract/download specific versions of specific ports, I wish to avoid cloning the complete port tree and/or only using the latest port versions.
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While certainly possible you're going to run into issues with missing dependencies. So it's often a lot easier to get a complete ports tree. Ports tree itself isn't too big, it's all text files, will go great if you use compression on the filesystem.
 
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