Subject: Re: How to perform binary updates for all installed pkgs?
To: uhel <uhel@gmx.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/23/2005 15:25:01
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, uhel wrote:

>> Seems there is no "official" tool for this (why not?), pkg_add only
>> works for single packages, pkg_chk needs pkgsrc,...
>
> Does pkg_chk really need pkgsrc to update packages? Maybe you can use
> 'pkg_chk -kib' and set PACKAGES in mk.conf to the location where your
> binaries are..
> A local path (nfs mount) should work but i don't know if you can also
> use a www/ftp-address.

 	pkg_chk used to need pkgsrc, but from 1.53 the -b option will
 	just use the data from the binary packages, so you can build
 	a set on one machine and copy them across to the dest with
 	your pkgchk.conf

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