Subject: Re: How to perform binary updates for all installed pkgs?
To: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/23/2005 11:34:12
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, David Brownlee wrote:

> >> 	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
> >
> > But how to get pkg_ck to fetch the binaries from ftp.netbsd.org/... ?
>
>  	At the moment pkg_chk needs to parse the binary packages to
>  	work out the category/packagedir value to check against the
>  	pkgchk.conf

I don't use pkg_chk ...

But would
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/reed/pkgsrc-available-NetBSD-2.0-i386.bz2
be useful? (It is 945572 bytes.)

I plan to make a simple interface similar to Debian's apt-get to use it.

 Jeremy C. Reed

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