Subject: Re: Smarter make update / pkg_chk algo
To: None <ghen@telenet.be>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/24/2005 23:15:57
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Geert Hendrickx wrote:

> On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:49:56PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
>> 	It also now works against binary packages.
>
> An important criterium for a binary package updating script: does it
> work without a local pkgsrc tree?  pkg_chk needs one, and I think this
> is a drawback.

  	pkg_chk used to need a local pkgsrc tree, but that was rectified
  	in January of this year. This latest change also enables pkg_chk
  	-u to work against a set of binary packages.

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