Resuming an interrupted pkg_add

[Bob Leigh]

> So, about halfway through pkg_add texlive...  (i.e. hours) the line drops.
> (Thank you, embarq).  I am left with a "partial-texlive..." package.

Is this OpenBSD 4.6?  On the i386 architecture?  If so, here's what
I see in ftp://mirror.planetunix.net/pub/OpenBSD/4.6/packages/i386/
for package sizes for texlive:

texlive_base-2008p11.tgz	  11,621 KB
texlive_texmf-docs-2008p1.tgz	 607,700 KB
texlive_texmf-full-2008p2.tgz	 164,893 KB
texlive_texmf-minimal-2008p1.tgz 194,909 KB

With files that size, yes, you might be better off doing a wget
then local install.

> One other webcomment was one of those @#$@# terse, clever tweet-style
> snarky unhelps which said
> 
>     pkg_add -F conflicts name-of-package
> 
> and nothing else.  Will this actually resume installation or will it start from

>From the pkg_add man page, '-F' means install ignoring conflicts
(such as files already installed), so yes, that might be okay.
Personally, I would do a pkg_delete then a local install, just to
be even safer.

-- 
Bob Leigh	bobleigh at twomeeps.com