Install package inside a no-networked jail from outside

[Alberto Mijares]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 22:52:49 -0430, Alberto Mijares wrote:
>> This was my first approach; however, you need to bootstrap pkg and
>> AFAIK this is not possible without networking. BTW, I think pkg should
>> be installed by default now.
>
> It is installed in the special incarnation that the
> "OS pkg" does fetch the current "port pkg". This
> approach makes it easier to continuously develop
> pkg and improve its features. However, the call
> for a "basic functional pkg" in the OS is justified
> and understandable, so you can have a tool to install
> binary packages from the installation media - except,
> of course, the installation media also contains a
> "port pkg" that is being installed first, so it can
> then proceed to install the intended packages.


Thank you. Your post gave me some ideas that took me here

http://forums.freebsd.org/threads/how-to-install-a-binary-package-without-internet-access.42968/

so I did it.

Regards,


Alberto Mijares