20090508: Added -c flag, clean cache: delete all downloaded packages from /var/db/pkg_dry/cache 20090507: A database rebuild is needed, along with a regeneration of the ddb_create.h header in order to support multi-repository. Record your keepables packages : $ pkg_dry -p|cut -d' ' -f1 > pkg_dry.keep Remove the database # rm -f /var/db/pkg_dry/pkg_dry.db Set the PKG_REPOS variable to your repository(ies) : # PKG_REPOS=ftp://ftp.fr.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/i386/5.0/All # export PKG_REPOS Rebuild pkg_dry $ rm -f ddb_create.h $ make Regenerate the database # pkg_dry -u Mark your keepables packages # for pkg in `cat pkg_dry.keep`; do pkg_dry -k $pkg; done