From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 22 11:46:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-1.sjc.telocity.net (mail-1.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A99A37B479 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 11:46:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoso (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-1.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA19922; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 11:44:04 -0700 (PDT) From: "Otter" To: "Mark Rowlands" , "Chip" , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: RE: Keeping up to date Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 14:49:21 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <00102220221900.02237@marbsd.tninet.se> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG }you may also find www.freebsddiary.org to be of interest }and when all else fails ....try again :-) I cvsup weekly and }it usually works. Now if I could get updating ports...not the tree }but the actual ports themselves, to work........ } }-- }These are just my opinions } you are free to disagree } please do so quietly } } Mark, Check out the man page for pkg_version. I read somewhere awhile back that the -c flag might have some bugs to it, so be wary of it. I still prefer to use it for just checking against the index. I'll stick with manually updating the outdated ports myself, rather than risk nuking my apps and/or their dependancies. -Otter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message