From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 13:34:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C1B837B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:34:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil (shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil [141.190.102.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9C7D43E65 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:34:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from knowtree@aloha.com) Received: by shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil (Postfix, from userid 501) id 0DFD2F82; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:28:19 -1000 (HST) Subject: Ports Management - List and Compare Versions From: Gary Dunn To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 08 Aug 2002 10:28:18 -1000 Message-Id: <1028838498.6408.27.camel@shf102107.hi.pac.army.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there a way to list what ports have been installed on a system, the version, perhaps date installed, and for each of those installed ports, the version currently available in the ports collection? Right now I just jot down what I install on a steno pad; simple, but so low tech. Imaginary report (bogus data): ------ Installed ------ ------ Released ------ Category Name Version Date Version Date security openssl 0.9.6e_1 2002-08-08 0.9.6e_1 2002-08-08 * sysutils webmin 0.98 2002-07-15 0.99 2002-08-01 * = newer version available Related, when make install reports registering installation, what is it doing? -- Gary Dunn Open Slate Project http://www.aloha.com/~knowtree/ Honolulu registered Linux user #273809 >< This tagline is umop apisdn.>< To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message