pkgsrc binary upgrade question

[Justin C. Sherrill]

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.