Re: questions about pkg_add

On Tue, Aug 4, 2026 at 10:28 AM Neel chakraborty <[email protected]>
wrote:

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>    Is there an equivalent of pacman -Sp ?
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>    Here are the details of the command
>    <https://man.archlinux.org/man/pacman.8>
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>    Are there any OpenBSD:: modules that can be used to print the entire
>    resolved dependency tree for a certain package to STDOUT?
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>    If I download a package, with its required dependencies, to a local
>    directory, can I install the package with pkg_add?
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>    How does pkg_add handle package verification? Do I need to do anything
>    after downloading the package files, or will pkg_add take care of it on
>    its own?
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>    What I am trying to do is, generate a dependency tree for a package
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>    and then download all the required files onto a local folder and then
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>    point pkg_add to the local folder as the source. Is it possible?
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>    Please let me know, I don't know the correct words to look up in the
>    manuals
>    hence the question.
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> "man pkg_add" is the command you want. It will tell you about the pkg_add
options
including "-n" to not actually install anything, PKG_CACHE which will let
you
download things to a local folder, and tell you how package signatures are
verified.

-ken