Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 13:16:27 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Thomas Schuerger <schuerge@wjpserver.CS.Uni-SB.DE> Cc: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Check for ports updates Message-ID: <20000607131626.A4884@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <200006062025.WAA12391@wjpserver.cs.uni-sb.de>; from schuerge@wjpserver.CS.Uni-SB.DE on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:25:02PM %2B0200 References: <20000606153351.E7792@argon.gryphonsoft.com> <200006062025.WAA12391@wjpserver.cs.uni-sb.de>
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On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:25:02PM +0200, Thomas Schuerger wrote:
> > > Is there already a tool that checks the installed ports for available
> > > updates in /usr/ports?
> > >
> > > I've written such a tool, which seems to work fine already. Anyone
> > > interested?
> >
> > pkg_version(1)
>
> Ah, haven't seen that before. The output of pkg_version is very
> canonical, but not very readable for humans.
pkg_version -v
pkg_version -c
N
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