From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 18 10:56:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 941941189E for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:56:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.210.87]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990218185752.EAVE3226200.mta2-rme@wocker> for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 07:57:52 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 07:56:43 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Port upgrade check/report tool Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz In-reply-to: <19990218092036.A41753@dub.net> References: <199902181150.WAA13777@whirlwind.netspace.net.au>; from gcross@netspace.net.au on Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 10:47:04PM +1100 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990218185752.EAVE3226200.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 18 Feb 99, at 9:20, Unfurl wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 10:47:04PM +1100, gcross@netspace.net.au wrote: > > 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 are now out-of-date and need upgrading.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. > > Why not just use cvsup? Will cvsup tell you what needs to be updated without downloading them? I thought that's what the above will do. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message