Subject: Re: How to perform binary updates for all installed pkgs?
To: Mark Weinem <mark.weinem@onlinehome.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/26/2005 10:31:16
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Mark Weinem wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, David Brownlee wrote:
>
>> At the moment pkg_chk needs to parse the binary packages to work
>> out the category/packagedir value to check against the
>> pkgchk.conf
>
> "At the moment"? Does that mean it will work with ftp/http in the
> future?
"Potentially". All it needs is a mapping from pkgdir
(category/pkg) to pkgname-revision, and potentially build info if
you want to use -B. That could easily be provided with a set of
binary packages in a file such as the one mentioned by Jeremy.
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