> On May 23, 2025, at 05:00, Piotr Smyrak <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 23 May 2025 04:25:45 -0700
> "Dan Mahoney (Ports)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> pkg has a feature, pkg updating, which basically requires you to have
>> a checked out ports tree.
>>
>> Are there any plans to make this function possible without having a
>> ports tree checked out, by baking the “UPDATING” data into the repo
>> file somehow?
>
> Do you mean something like fetchupdating similarly to fetchindex
> target? Or even more standalone?
My copy of pkg doesn’t seem to know what to do if I type pkg fetchindex.
I think a good thing would be to bring it into parity with pkg-audit, which
also depends on a file that’s not normally part of the pkg repo, but which has
an inbuilt command to fetch it.
-Dan
