Subject: Re: pkg_chk that does not need pkgsrc
To: David Brownlee <abs@absd.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/28/2005 20:01:38
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, David Brownlee wrote:
> I've updated pkg_chk not not need pkgsrc when used with -b, so
> you can copy a set of binary packages, pkg_chk, and pkgchk.conf
> to a remote machine and run it there.
>
> I wondered if anyone would like to have a look/test?
Can it be made to not require downloading the binaries before it's decided
which ones are needed? Like, "look, there's a bunch of binary pkgs from
the latest bulk build on ftp.NetBSD.org, update!".
First downloading some 5GB of pkgs if you don't need them is ... yuck. :)
- Hubert
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