GNU make not installed

[joerg at britannica.bec.de]

On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 10:31:13PM -0400, Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
> On Sat, April 22, 2006 8:39 am, joerg at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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