On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 10:31:13PM -0400, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > On Sat, April 22, 2006 8:39 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > For binary-only operation, currently create an empty Makefile in > > /usr/pkgsrc and set the package directory with -P explictly to the > > remote repository. > > So, it appears that: > > touch /usr/pkgsrc/makefile > > pkg_chk -P ftp://binary/url -abg (generate pkg_chk.conf if nonexistent) > > pkg_chk -P ftp://binary/url -abf (fetch all needed packages) > > pkg_chk -P //wherever/previous/step/put/binaries -abu (upgrade) > > will upgrade everything with binary packages previously downloaded? > > This would be very handy, as it would (mostly) remove 2 of the big > problems with pkg_chk - downtime while new versions are installed, and > packages failing to build.
Yes, that should be enough. At least last time I tried, since I don't have that many packages on my server to keep current :-) Joerg
