Subject: Re: How to perform binary updates for all installed pkgs?
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/28/2005 21:46:03
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

>>> 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.
>>
>>  	pkg_chk could certainly use that, if anything its a little
>>  	overkill for its needs. Is the intention that that should live
>>  	in the uploaded PACKAGES dir (at the same level as 'All)?
>
> I haven't thought yet where to keep it. My plan is to regenerate it as
> needed -- and on stable branch it may go days or a week between changes.
> Also for stable collection a single diff against this original could be
> used for any updates for the entire quarter.

 	So it would be generated to match the current sent of binary
 	packages uploaded for that specific arch/os version? Seems
 	reasonable. Do you have a checked in tool to regen?

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