From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 18 8:28:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles225.castles.com [208.214.165.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55DEF116EC for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 08:27:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA06239; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 08:23:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902181623.IAA06239@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: gcross@netspace.net.au Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port upgrade check/report tool In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:47:04 +1100." <199902181150.WAA13777@whirlwind.netspace.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 08:23:11 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I haven't found a tool that will look at the current ports index file, > then look at the ports installed on my system and tell me which ports > are now out-of-date and need upgrading. > > So, I have written a Python program that will do just that. > > It will work with either a local copy of a current ports INDEX file, or > fetch one (via ftp or http) from a FreeBSD site. > > Out of sheer originality, I have named it portcheck, and you can read > about it and download the tarball from: > > http://www.netspace.net.au/~gcross/portcheck.html > > I would appreciate comments, bug reports, etc, before I announce it to > a wider audience. You could have added it into PIB... -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message