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# Presentation
**pkgupdate** is a simple shell script meant for OpenBSD users of the stable branchs (people following releases) to easily keep their packages up to date.
**pkgupdate** is a simple shell script meant for OpenBSD users to easily keep their packages up to date the fastest possible.
It is meant to be run daily by cron on servers on at boot time for workstations (you can obviously configure it how you prefer).
It is meant to be run daily by cron on servers on at boot time for workstations.
# Usage
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- fetch the index of packages and compare it between runs (using a cache in `/var/cache/pkgupdate/`)
- if the index changed, which mean everytime a new package is updated, then it only try to update the packages available in the `packages-stable` directory
- if curl is installed, use curl instead of ftp(1) command
- if curl is installed, use curl instead of ftp(1) command (because [pkg_add is more efficient with curl](https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-07-08-openbsd-pkg_add_performance_analysis.html))
# Why?