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Re: up2date - something for NetBSD?
> Tools to use it ... my wip/pkg_get (I still need to rename) is a quick
> shell script hack to use it. It has a manual page. It can retrieve the
> database and tell you what packages you can update. It can also help you
> install and update packages. Also see pkgpm (which I think is more robust
> and featureful, but I haven't use yet).
pkgpm is incomplete, e.g. it doesn't download pkg_summary and doesn't do
actual install/upgrade of packages, currently it only shows differences
everything vs. everything. It also implement "registering" packages,
i.e. marking them as REALLY needed.
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Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.
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