On Tue, October 3, 2006 4:15 pm, Gergo Szakal wrote: > Well, the command > > pkg_chk -P > ftp://dfpkgsrc/pkgsrc-current/DragonFly/1.6.0-RELEASE/i386/All -abf > fetches the sourcefiles, writes [Fetch] and exits. If I do like this: > > pkg_chk -P > ftp://dfpkgsrc/pkgsrc-current/DragonFly/1.6.0-RELEASE/i386/All -abu > > then it fetches the files and does the upgrade (well, it tries its best, > of course I had to manually fix dependency hell for 2+ hours).
It's fetching the source? The -b option is supposed to mean "binaries". Course, I haven't tried it lately. The idea for having a separate download step was to reduce the total amount of time where software is out of commission.
